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Saint Mary's Catholic Church — Drom

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Saint Mary's Catholic Church — Drom
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Freestanding gable-fronted T-plan Catholic church with apse, built 1829, with three-bay nave, single-bay transepts and re-entrant corners. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered course to eaves and with cast-iron rainwater goods and limestone cross finials. Roughcast rendered walls with dressed limestone quoins and render plinth. Gable-front has open-bed pediment and Tudor-arch openings to centre bay, flanked by pointed-arch openings, with limestone hood-mouldings and sill course. Pointed-arch openings elsewhere. All windows have stained glass. Replacement glazed timber double-leaf doors to gable front and single to west walls of transepts. Interior has quadripartite decorative plaster rib vaulting to crossing with vegetal rose. Reredos consists of paired Corinthian columns and pilasters flanking altar and in turn flanked by niches with statues, and pilasters, all supporting open-bed pediment and entablature. Carved ashlar limestone gate piers with cast-iron railings and gates to front. Belfry to northeast. Graveyard to site.

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