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Catholic Church of Saint Michael and Saint John — Moneygall Road

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Catholic Church of Saint Michael and Saint John — Moneygall Road
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Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1898, comprising nave flanked by five and six-bay side aisles, with two-bay chancel, and having three-stage tower to west end of front elevation. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, cross finials to gables, and pyramidal metal sheet roof to bell tower with finial. Rock-faced snecked limestone walls with cut limestone surrounds to openings, buttresses to corners of nave and tower, and string courses to tower. Double-light pointed-arch windows to nave, single-light to clerestory, triple-light to front with sill course, and five-light to altar end, with block-and-start surrounds, and leaded coloured and stained glass by Harry Clarke and Evie Hone. Colonnade with pointed arches on round-plan marble columns to aisles. Timber arched roof supported on hanging posts over carved stone corbels. Carved stone reredos and marble altar. Timber battened door having wrought-iron strap hinges. Rusticated limestone plinth wall to front boundary of site, with carved limestone square-plan gate piers with decorative cast-iron railings and double-leaf gate to site. Graveyard to site.

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