Fahan Catholic Chapel of Ease

Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic Chapel of Ease, built c. 1947, having seven-bay nave, single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the entrance gable (south-east), and with single-bay single-storey gable-fronted sacristy to the west gable end. Pitched sprocketed natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, concrete cross finial to west gable end of nave, projecting cement rendered eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods, and red clay roll ridge tiles. Pitched sprocketed natural slate roofs to porch and sacristy with cross finial to porch gable apex. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth cement rendered crown band, snecked rock-faced stone-clad plinth with chamfered concrete coping. Round-headed window openings with concrete Y-tracery, leaded coloured glass, flush concrete surrounds and sill, and with concrete hoodmouldings with decorative label stops. Square-headed door opening to porch having timber panelled door with raised and fielded panels and bolection mouldings surmounted by concrete round-headed tympanum with three roundels with embossed cross motifs, flush concrete surrounds to doorcase, concrete hoodmoulding and label-stops; round-headed door opening to sacristy with painted timber chevron-sheeted door, concrete reveals and flush surrounds, concrete hoodmoulding and label stops. Inside, rendered walls with rendered hoodmoulding with label stops to windows, timber pews, rendered canted ceiling with rendered moulded braces supported by rendered pilasters, and with marble altar. Set back from road in sloping site to the north-east end of Fahan and adjacent to Lough Swilly. Site enclosed to north by roughcast rendered boundary wall with concrete saddle-backed coping over surmounted by decorative metal railing; cement rendered piers (on square-plan) at intervals along length. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having round-headed roughcast rendered panels, stepped pyramidal cap surmounted by round concrete finials, and with a pair of metal gates.