St. Conall’s Catholic Church — Ardara Road

Freestanding Catholic church on complex-plan, built 1971-4, composed by two overlapping blocks (on rectangular plan) each having mono-pitched roofs with continuous clerestory windows at junction to ridge apex, and with main church and Blessed Sacrament chapel to either side of main entrance. Mono-pitched artificial slate roof with lead-lined box gutters having decorative gargoyles\water spouts, and with overhanging eaves having timber soffit. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course, and with splayed roughcast rendered buttresses projecting between bays to the north-west elevation. Roughcast rendered walls to either end of building splayed to continue roofline. Square-headed openings with fixed-pane timber windows to the north-west elevation, aluminium fixed-pane windows at clerestory level, and with vertical strip windows to south-east elevation; some modern replacement windows. Square-headed doorway to the north-west elevation having battened timber doors with decorative horizontal leaded push-bars\friezes to centre having zoomorphic representations, and with flanked fixed-pane sidelights. Timber boarded ceilings to underside of mono-pitched roofs to interior, timber pews, carved monolithic Liscannor stone altar, celebrant’s chair and baptismal font, polished concrete floor slabs, organ, crucifix behind altar, exposed block work walls to higher level seating , plaster statues to the entrance foyer depicting St. Conall, Our Lady, and St. Colmcille. Set back from road in mature site to the south of the centre of Glenties. Shrubs and pathway to north-west and car park to the south-west. Water feature along north-west façade with bridge over serving main entrance. Tall steel feature at site boundary to the north-west having square-headed opening, and with crest of Diocese of Raphoe over entrance.