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Saint Cronan's Catholic Church — Abbey Street

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Saint Cronan's Catholic Church — Abbey Street
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Freestanding cruciform-plan Catholic church, built c.1855, comprising gable-fronted six-bay nave with side aisles, two-bay transepts, single-bay chancel with bow-plan apse to east and with L-plan sacristy to south-east. West front has shallow gable-fronted porch to centre with order arch and with statue over and is flanked by polygonal turrets with narrow round and square-headed lights and blind lights, crenellations and spirelets. Pitched artificial slate roofs with mono-pitched roofs to aisles, flat roof to sacristy and with stone cross finials to gables. Snecked sandstone walls, rubble to exterior of side aisles, with string courses, modillions and buttresses. Trefoil-headed windows to aisles, paired to clerestorey, lancets to apse, large round and pointed-arch windows with hood-mouldings to west front, and with some trefoil windows with hood-mouldings. Stained glass to windows in east and west ends. Pointed-arch openings with timber battened double-leaf doors with stone hood-mouldings. Blind door and window openings to east elevation. Interior has arcade of polygonal columns supporting pointed arches, roof of braced wooden trusses with decorative cast iron to spandrels and with ornamental marble screen in apse.

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