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Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart — Clare Island

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Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart — Clare Island
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Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, designed 1861; built 1862; dated 1862; extant 1911, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. Renovated, 1936-7, with interior "improved". Renovated, 1964-5, with sanctuary reordered. Renovated, 1988. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof to porch with clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables with Cross finial to apex (west), and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on cement rendered eaves. Replacement cement rendered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" piers to corners. Lancet window openings with concrete sills[?], and moulded rendered surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Segmental-headed opposing door openings to porch with concrete step thresholds, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Interior including vestibule (west) with wall monument (ob. 1864); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior with carpeted central aisle between timber pews, stained glass memorial windows (????; 1953), and herring bone-pattern timber parquet stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1964-5, with stepped "predella" supporting replacement altar table. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Saint Brigid's Abbey (founded 1224; rebuilt 1460).

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