Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart — Killusty

Detached cruciform-plan gable-fronted Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built 1883, with five-bay nave elevations, two-bay transepts, sacristy to south-east and having porches to east end of main elevations. Pitched slate roofs with decorative ridge cresting, cut limestone bellcote to gable-front and having cast-iron crosses to all gables. Hipped roof with cut limestone chimneystack to sacristy. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls with chamfered cut limestone block-and-start surrounds to opening and having buttresses to corners of gable-front. Station in canopied projection over entrance in gable-front and supported on sculpted corbel. Pointed arch window openings having cast-iron lattice glazing. Main entrance has pointed chamfered carved limestone surround with hood-moulding and double-leaf timber battened door with ornate strap hinges. Quatrefoil aperture with hood moulding to apex of gable-front. Timber diagonally-battened double-leaf door to west porch, set into shouldered opening with roundel to tympanum, all set into pointed opening, with steps. Interior comprising timber scissor brace roof structure, two arch pointed arcade to transepts having carved round limestone columns, sculpted marble reredos to apse and stained glass windows to transepts. Small carved timber gallery over porch to entrance end. Square-profile limestone piers to front of church with cut-stone cap and decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates and roughly-dressed limestone plinths having cast-iron railings. Square-profile limestone piers with gabled caps to graveyard, having double-leaf spear-headed cast-iron gates with snecked limestone walls terminated by a second pair of limestone piers.