St. Mary’s Catholic Church — Clonmany

Freestanding five-bay double-height Catholic church, built c. 1814, having extension to north to form T- plan, built c. 1833, three-stage tower (on square-plan) to the west, built 1843, having crenellated parapet and with cut stone pinnacles\bartizans to the corners supported on cut stone corbels, modern single-bay gable-fronted two-storey extension to the north gable end, and gable-fronted bay to the centre of the south elevation having modern two-bay gable-fronted extension attached to the south. Pitched natural slate roofs with pierced terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron profiled gutters on render corbels to the main body of church, and with raised rendered verges to the gable ends having gable-fronted kneeler stone detailing on moulded render corbels at eaves level, and with cross finials to gable apexes. Smooth rendered walls; dressed rubble stone masonry to tower having flush dressed cut stone block-and-start quoins to the corners, and with cut stone stringcourses, delineating stages; round-headed statue niche to the west elevation of tower at second stage level having cut stone surround, cut stone hoodmoulding over, and with statue of the Virgin Mary. Pointed-arch window openings with Y-tracery, leaded windows, and with stucco hoodmouldings over; pointed-arched window openings to either side of altar to south elevation having leaded figurative stained glass windows; rose window to south gable over altar having leaded figurative stained glass fittings. Pointed-arch window openings to tower at first stage level having dressed stone surrounds, leaded windows, and cut stone hoodmouldings over. Pointed-arched openings to tower at belfry\third stage level having dressed stone surrounds, stone sills, cut stone hoodmoulding over, and with timber louvered fittings. Square-headed window openings with modern one-over-one sash windows to modern additions to the north and south elevations. Pointed-arch headed door openings to the north and south elevations of tower having dressed stone surrounds, replacement battened timber doors with salvaged decorative wrought-iron hinges, and with cut stone hoodmoulding over. Pointed-arched door opening to the west elevation of modern addition to the north having dressed stone block-and-start surround, cut stone hoodmoulding, and with battened timber double-doors. Exposed timber queen post roof trusses to interior with timber boarded ceiling, galleries supported on cast-iron columns having timber panelled balustrades, marble altar goods, carved marble reredos c. 1920, encaustic tiled floor, and with timber wainscoting to sill level. Set back from road in an elevated corner site to the south-east of the centre of Clonmany. Graveyard to site having collection of mainly upstanding late nineteenth and twentieth-century memorial markers, some with railed enclosures. Some Commonwealth graves to site. Rendered boundary walls to road-frontage to the south. Gateway to the south-west comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having a pair of decorative wrought-iron gates.