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St. Mary's Catholic Church — Ballybrack

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St. Mary's Catholic Church — Ballybrack
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Freestanding five-bay Catholic church, dated 1885, with four-stage tower (on square-plan) to west, and sacristy to east. Pitched artificial slate roof with smooth rendered gable copings, skew blocks, finial cross and cast-iron rainwater goods. Tower with pyramidal slate spire, wrought-iron finial and parapet with cornice stringcourse to parapet of tower. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with smooth rendered plinth course; corner buttresses, ground floor channelling and stringcourses to tower. Pointed-arch headed window openings with Y-tracery, containing timber sashes, with hoodmouldings over. Pointed-arch door openings to tower with double-leafed timber panelled doors and with dated crest over north and south doors. Interior with timber altar rails, carved marble altar and reredos, timber panelled balustrade to gallery with cast-iron column supports, timber half glazed panelled doors to tower entrance porch with ornate timber framed coloured-glass surround. Set within own grounds with graveyard. Roughcast rendered wall to road with cast-iron gates mounted on roughcast rendered gate piers.

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