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Saint Joseph's Catholic Church — Ballinahinch

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Saint Joseph's Catholic Church — Ballinahinch
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Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1883, with four-bay side elevations to nave, sacristy to northeast and with polygonal apse to east. Pitched slate roof, hipped to apse, with decorative banding, ornate cast-iron ridge cresting and with cut limestone belfry and cross finial to gable-front. Projecting cut limestone chimneystack to sacristy. Dressed yellow sandstone walls with buttresses to gable front and to nave and with cut limestone plinth and quoins and with plat-bands to gable-front. Chamfered cut limestone surrounds to window and door openings, with red sandstone voussoirs above hood-mouldings. Three-light lancet window to gable front, with stained glass. Pointed-arch lancets to nave and chancel. Triple square-headed light to sacristy. Pointed-arch main entrance with replacement timber double-leaf door and over-light, flanked by trefoil windows, all with hood-mouldings and linked by plat-band. Side entrance at west end of north wall has limestone over-door with carved cross. Exposed arch-braced king-post truss roof to interior. Carved marble reredos. Timber gallery to entrance end. Decorative cast-iron entrance gates and railings and with graveyard to site.

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