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Saint James's Catholic Church — CASHEL (BALLYNAHINCH BY)

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Saint James's Catholic Church — CASHEL (BALLYNAHINCH BY)
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Freestanding Gothic Revival-style Roman Catholic church, built 1901, having altar to south-east end, and four-bay nave, single-bay chancel, two-stage bell tower to north-west end of entrance elevation and single-bay sacristy to south-east end of rear long elevation. Recent metal-clad outbuilding to north-east elevation. Pitched slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles, concrete coping, cross finials, corbels and cast-iron rainwater goods. Conical slate roof to tower with dentillated eaves course and cross finial. Randomly coursed rock-faced granite block walls with rendered coping to plinth, and having stone buttresses to front corner of chancel and to adjacent corner of nave. Square-plan tower with octagonal-plan drum. Pointed arch window openings to nave and triangular-headed window openings to chancel, sacristy and tower, with leaded stained-glass windows and rendered heads, sacristy having paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with rendered sills. Timber louvers to tower drum. Square-headed door opening to sacristy and pointed arch door opening to tower with replacement double-leaf timber battened doors. Accessed by concrete steps to south-west and enclosed by rubble stone wall with piers and cast-iron gates.

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