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Saint Brendan's Catholic Church — CLOONLEE

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Saint Brendan's Catholic Church — CLOONLEE
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Freestanding gable-fronted T-plan former Roman Catholic Church, built c.1840, front facing east, having single-bay nave and transepts, latter with gabled porch projections to front sides, and with single-bay sacristy addition with pitched roof and single-bay addition with catslide roof to west end. Now in use as parish hall. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, and with gabled tooled limestone bellcote to gable-front. Tooled limestone cross finial to south transept gable, and rendered chimneystack to sacristy. Some cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with string course to apex of entrance gable forming pediment detail. Pointed arch double-light timber windows with tooled limestone sills and Y-tracery, having eight-pane pivoted window to north transept, two-over-six pane sliding sash window to south side of nave, windows to north wall of nave and to north transept and its porch being blocked up. Blocked square-headed window opening to sacristy. Square-headed doorway to gable-front and to porches with double-leaf timber battened doors. Timber wainscoting and tooled limestone hexagonal holy water stoup to interior, and also timber gallery with pointed arch openings and moulded timber corbels, timber battened panelled ceiling, and cast-iron pot-bellied stove. Northern transept now housing stage, with square-plan fluted Corinthian columns and pilasters with moulded and dentillated architrave forming entrances at each side. Squared snecked rubble limestone boundary walls terminating in some square-plan tooled limestone piers with pointed caps. Tooled limestone cross to grounds.

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