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Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception — Templederry

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Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception — Templederry
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Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1877, with four-bay nave, double transepts with shallow limestone porches to north sides, lower canted apse to south and recent flat-roofed sacristy to southeast corner. Pitched slate roofs with ashlar limestone bellcote, ornate cast-iron ridge cresting and wrought-iron cross finials. Roughly-dressed snecked limestone gable front having cut limestone dressings, quoins, plat-bands and rough block-and-start window surrounds. Roughly-dressed sandstone walls elsewhere, having diagonal cut limestone stepped buttresses, diagonal to gable front and transepts. Double lancet windows with round openings above, with roughly-dressed limestone voussoirs, rose window to gable-front with quatrefoil windows around central multi-foil window, all within pointed arch panel, having stained glass. Pointed-arch main opening with timber battened double-leaf door with ornate strap hinges, and with trefoil motif in carved tympanum. Elaborately-carved pointed-arch doorway to east transept with hood-moulding, stone cross finial and timber battened double-leaf door. Sculpted reredos to interior. Cast-iron gates, piers and railings with rendered boundary wall to site.

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