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Saint Mary's Catholic Church — Main Street

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Saint Mary's Catholic Church — Main Street
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Detached gable-fronted Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built in 1879. Central nave with side aisles. Four-stage tower to north-west end of elevation with pinnacles, pointed lancets and windows and statue to front face. Fourth stage of tower added in the 1920s. Pitched slate roof with stone cross finials. Random coursed limestone and rock-faced walls with ashlar limestone dressings. Recessed sculpted sandstone tympanum above pointed-arched central double entrance of two orders. Doors separated and flanked by marble colonettes, central supporting statue. Hood moulding and decorative shields over doorway. Doors to tower and east end of façade. Pointed-arched windows with carved stone heads and sills and with yellow brick sides. Four-light traceried window over entrance door with carved stone hood moulding. Three-light traceried window to chancel end. Baptistry to north-west corner with conical roof and with ogee-headed windows. Set on a height over Main Street with limestone steps and limestone and sandstone paving. Churchyard bounded by low ashlar wall with cast-iron railings. Ashlar piers with stone cross finials and cast-iron gates. Bronze sculpture of Madonna and Child, erected in 2000 to side of building, by Manorhamilton artist Jackie McKenna.

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