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Oratory of the Assumption — Ballyliffin

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Oratory of the Assumption — Ballyliffin
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Detached three-bay gable-fronted Catholic church, built c. 1950, having eight-bay side elevations (north and south), central gable-fronted single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the entrance gable (east), single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the north elevation, and with rendered round-headed bellcote to the west gable end. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ware ridge tiles, rendered cross finial to front gable, raised ended gable copings to east and west with rendered skew blocks to eaves, bellcote to west gable, and with cast-iron skylight over altar. Raised rendered gable copings to entrance porches. Smooth rendered walls over projecting plinth. Round-headed windows to side elevation shaving painted sills, leaded coloured glass with bottom hung inward-opening lights in timber sub-frames, and with render hoodmouldings over. Square-headed door opening with render hoodmouldings over, and with battened timber door and double-doors. Timber wainscoting to sill level to interior with timber pews. Set within own grounds incorporating car parking, detached boiler house to rear with monopitch corrugated-metal roof, painted render to walls. Garden and modern stone walls to east of site.

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