Saint Columba's Catholic Church — Kilbeacanty

Freestanding cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, dated 1839 and replacing thatched church, with altar to north end, having four-bay nave, single-bay transepts and chancel, latter with three-bay sacristy addition to north, and square-plan four-stage tower to south, with recent porch to east elevation of nave. Pitched slate roofs with decorative terracotta ridge crestings, tooled limestone copings cross pinnacles to gables, and decorative bracket course to eaves. Rendered chimneystack to sacristy having terracotta chimneypots. Balustraded parapets to tower, with pinnacles having cross finials to corners. Smooth rendered walls with painted plinth course, diagonal stepped buttresses to lower stages of tower, becoming pilasters to upper stages. Pointed arch window openings with render hood-mouldings and render block-and-start surrounds. Triple-light window openings to transepts, with oculi flanking middle light. Square-headed vent with timber louvre and block-and-start render surround to upper part of transept gables. Paired pointed arch openings to top stage of tower, with hood-mouldings, block-and-start surrounds and timber louvres. Oculi with block-and-start surrounds to third stage. Pointed arch door openings to sides of tower, with hood-mouldings, block-and-start surrounds and timber battened double-leaf doors. Tooled integral semi-circular holy water stoup with inscription to porch interior. Arch-braced king-post timber truss roof to interior with hanging posts on tooled stone corbels. Pointed arch arcades to transepts with fluted polished granite columns having moulded capitals, and with hood-moulding to arches, terminated at each end of arcades by moulded imposts. Painted timber Stations of the Cross. Decorative cast-iron balustrade to gallery at south end of nave. Recently built rubble-faced boundary wall to road, with squared work to piers, with decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gate, and with tooled limestone plaque to wall.