Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Assumption — Modelligo

Detached four-bay double-height Catholic church, c.1930, on a cruciform plan incorporating fabric of earlier church, c.1830, on site comprising two-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to north-west and to south-east, and single-bay double-height shallow chancel to north-east extending into single-bay single-storey sacristy to north-east. Extensively renovated, c.1980, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added to south-west, and interior reordered. Pitched artificial slate roofs on a cruciform plan (pitched to sacristy) with clay ridge tiles, cross finial to apex to south-west, sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves. Flat concrete roof to porch. Painted replacement roughcast walls, c.1980. Pointed-arch window openings with concrete sills, rendered surrounds, and fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows. Square-headed door openings to porch and to transepts (rendered surrounds to transepts) with replacement timber panelled doors and double doors, c.1980. Full-height interior reordered, c.1980, with timber pews having cast-iron ends, and decorative Gothic-style reredos, dated 1909. Set back from line of road in own grounds with painted rendered boundary wall to perimeter of site having painted rendered piers with replacement steel double gates, c.1980.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1600 – present.(iii) Remains of detached single-bay single-storey rubble stone single-cell church, c.1600, to south. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now gone. Random rubble stone walls (part ivy-clad). Openings not discernible.(iv) Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1830, to north. Reroofed, c.1930. Refenestrated, c.1980. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1930, clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills. Replacement timber casement window, c.1980, with one window opening now blocked-up with random rubble stone.(v) Freestanding belfry, c.1905, to west on a stepped base comprising cast-iron pillars on fluted pedestals having bas relief detailing, frame over, and cast-iron bell retaining original mechanisms.