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Detached six-bay double-height Catholic chapel, built 1900-3; extant 1917, on a T-shaped plan comprising five-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east) with pair of single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porches (west). Reroofed. Replacement pitched artificial slate roofs including pitched (gabled) artificial slate roofs to porches with pressed ridges, dragged cut-limestone coping to gables on drag edged dragged cut-limestone corbel kneelers with Cross finials to apexes, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Dragged limestone ashlar-banded tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls on battered base with drag edged dragged hammered limestone flush quoins to corners including drag edged dragged hammered limestone buttresses to corners to entrance (west) front having drag edged dragged cut-limestone "slated" coping. Lancet window openings with drag edged dragged hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) with drag edged dragged hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Paired pointed-arch window openings to entrance (west) front with hexafoil "Rose Window" to gable, dragged cut-limestone Y-mullions, and drag edged dragged hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on foliate label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch door openings to porches approached by two dragged cut-limestone steps, drag edged dragged hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on foliate label stops framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having decorative flat iron hinges. Paired quatrefoil window openings to "cheeks", drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins. Interior including vestibules; pointed-arch opposing door openings into nave with red brick header bond surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors; full-height interior open into roof with herring bone-pattern terracotta tiled central aisle between timber pews, timber wainscoting supporting "Cavetto" dado rail on "Faience Majolica" tiled frieze, timber stations between frosted glass windows, exposed pointed-arch braced scissor truss timber roof construction on dragged cut-limestone corbels with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing stepped dais to sanctuary (east) with cut-veined white marble Gothic-style reredos below frosted glass "Trinity Window". Set in landscaped grounds shared with Castlebar District Lunatic Asylum.

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