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Saint Anne's Catholic Church — Ballylaneen

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Saint Anne's Catholic Church — Ballylaneen
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Detached five-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1826, on a cruciform plan comprising two-bay double-height nave with single-bay two-stage entrance tower to west on a square plan, single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south, single-bay double-height canted shallow chancel to east extending into single-bay double-height (two-storey) sacristy to east. Renovated, c.1975, with interior reordered. Renovated, c.2000, with single-bay single-storey lean-to entrance bay added to sacristy. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan (lean-to to additional entrance bay) with decorative clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered quoins to corners, cut-stone date stone, and cut-stone bellcote to entrance tower on cut-stone course having pointed-arch openings, cast-iron bell, and cut-stone coping to gable with cross finial to apex. Pointed-arch window openings with rendered sills, and fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows. Square-headed door opening in round-headed recess with timber panelled door. Full-height interior reordered, c.1975, with carved timber pews, carved timber stations, timber panelled gallery to first floor to west on fluted Composite columns, tongue-and-groove timber panelling to ceiling, and decorative Gothic-style reredos to chancel. Set back from line of road in own grounds with painted roughcast boundary wall to perimeter of site.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1830 – present.

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