Catholic Church of the Holy Cross — Killea

Detached two-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1817, on a cruciform plan comprising single-bay double-height nave with chamfers leading to single-bay double-height transepts to north-east and to south-west having chamfers leading to single-bay double-height shallow chancel to north-west extending into single-bay two-storey sacristy to north-west. Renovated, c.1920, with single-bay single-storey projecting porch added to south-east, single-bay single-storey projecting porch added to sacristy to north-west, and single-bay single-storey canted infill bay added to north. Part refenestrated, c.1995. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan forming pyramidal section to crossing over chamfers (hipped to porches; half-polygonal to canted infill bay) with clay ridge tiles (rolled lead ridge tiles to canted infill bay), cut-stone coping to gables having cut-stone gabled bellcote to transept to south-west (with round-headed aperture having cast-iron bell), and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered walls. Round-headed window openings to nave and to chamfered bays with cut-stone sills, fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows, and some replacement fixed-pane uPVC windows, c.1995, having stained glass panels. Round-headed window openings to south-east in tripartite arrangement with shared cut-stone sill, and fixed-pane timber windows. Square-headed door openings with timber panelled doors. Square-headed window openings to sacristy with cut-stone sills, and 3/3 timber sash windows. Full-height interior open into roof with glazed timber panelled double doors, decorative mosaic-tiled floors, carved timber pews (some having decorative cast-iron ends), tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting (some incorporating fixed pews) with carved dado, cut-stone wall monuments, timber panelled gallery to first floor to south-east on cast-iron pillars accessed by carved timber staircase, decorative plasterwork rose to ceiling to octagonal crossing, timber panelled confessionals to transepts having friezes and decorative cresting, and decorative Gothic-style altar furniture to chancel. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having rubble stone vertical coping, cut-stone piers, and wrought iron gate.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1820 – present.