Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Assumption — KILMOYLER

Freestanding cruciform gable-fronted church, built 1805, remodelled and extended in Gothic Revival style c. 1860. Comprises single-bay nave with transepts to north and south having lower porches to gables, lean-to addition to south transept, apse with re-entrant corners at nave, and twentieth-century single-storey flat-roofed sacristy extension to east end. Square-plan tower to north-west corner of building having spired metal roof with cast-iron cross finial. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron eaves brackets, and statue of Virgin Mary to apex of gable-front. Pitched slate roofs to porches having rendered cross finials. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render eaves course, plinth course and quoins. Pointed arch openings, double to transept gables, having rendered hood-mouldings to front elevation and to front and gable walls of transepts and porches with ornate label stops over timber Y-tracery lattice windows with painted limestone sills. Stained glass to re-entrant corners and coloured glass elsewhere. Pointed arch openings to tower having timber fittings. Pointed arch entrance openings in gable-front and transept porches with render hood-mouldings having decorative label stops and timber battened doors, double-leaf to gable-front. Interior has ornate Gothic canopy to altar and flanking doors, latter having timber pediments having trefoil motif. Gallery to entrance end of nave having ornate cast-iron railings and timber staircase with ornate cast-iron panel. Pair of square profile painted lined-and-ruled rendered piers with carved limestone caps having double-leaf cast-iron gates and rendered walls with limestone coping.