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Catholic Church of the Holy Souls — Keenagh

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Catholic Church of the Holy Souls — Keenagh
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Detached seven-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, begun 1916; dated 1916, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables on "Cavetto"-detailed corbel kneelers including concrete coping to gable (north) on "Cavetto"-detailed corbel kneelers with rendered buttressed bellcote to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on beaded "Cavetto" consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Gritdashed roughcast walls on rendered battered plinth with rendered strips to corners. Round-headed central door opening with replacement poured concrete ramp, and rendered surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over on beaded "Cavetto" label stops framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Round-headed window openings to "cheeks" with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Round-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on beaded "Cavetto" label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Round-headed "Trinity Windows" to gables including round-headed stepped "Trinity Window" (south) with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on beaded "Cavetto" label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Interior including vestibule with tessellated "quarry tile" floor; round-headed door opening into nave with timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overpanel; full-height interior open into roof with carpeted central aisle between Maltese Cross-detailed timber pews, Romanesque-style timber memorial stations between frosted glass windows, cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered, ----, with cut-veined white marble stepped "predella" supporting altar table below frosted glass "Trinity Window", and exposed strutted collared timber roof construction on beaded "Cavetto" corbels with wind braced rafters to ceiling on carved timber cornice on quatrefoil-perforated frieze. Set in own grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.

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