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Saint Mary's Catholic Church — BALLYEIGHTER (LEITRIM BY)

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Saint Mary's Catholic Church — BALLYEIGHTER (LEITRIM BY)
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Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell Roman Catholic Church, built c.1850, with altar to south end of three-bay nave, and having single-bay sacristy to west elevation. Pitched tiled roofs with tooled limestone cross finials to gables, and carved limestone square-profile pinnacles on decorative carved limestone brackets to corners, taller to front corners. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course and eaves course to gable-front. Pointed arch window openings with tooled limestone sills and stained glass. Tracery glazing bars to chancel window. Square-headed window openings to sacristy with stained glass, and render sills. Tudor-arch door opening to gable-front with tooled limestone surround having ribbon dressing and chamfer, and double-leaf timber battened door. Freestanding octagonal-plan tooled limestone holy water font outside main entrance. Timber Stations of the Cross and marble altar to interior, latter having plaster ceiling rose above. Stained-glass windows, and statues to nave. Carved stone font to entrance. Recent religious statue to grounds. Recent mild steel double-leaf pedestrian gates to road boundary set to rendered piers in rendered boundary walls.

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