Church of Our Lady of Lourdes — Inch Island

Detached seven-bay single-storey Catholic church, built c. 1922 with entrance porch to west and sacristy to north-east corner. Pitched slate roofs, blue-black roll clay ridge tiles, projecting rendered arcade to eaves on moulded modillions, cast-iron rainwater goods with ornamented cast-iron hopper-heads; sacristy with moulded rendered eaves and rectangular rendered chimneystack with plinth carried on rendered arcade on moulded modillions. Roughcast rendered walls, moulded verges, with round-headed flush moulded flat panel verge-ends on moulded skew-corbels to gable ends; Celtic cross finials to both gables; painted statue of Our lady of Lourdes set into round-headed niche on moulded corbel with rendered hoodmoulding and label-stops to east gable; rendered quoins, stepped chamfered rendered plinth. Round-headed window openings, paired to west gable and porch, with leaded stained glass, rendered reveals, block-and-start surrounds and splayed sills, hoodmoulding and label-stops; round-headed window openings to sacristy with timber five-over-six sash windows with roughcast rendered reveals, rendered sill, hoodmoulding and label-stops; triple lancet stained glass windows with stained glass roundels to east gable, set in recessed round-headed arch with block-and-start rendered surrounds, splayed sill, hoodmoulding and label-stops. Round-headed entrance door openings, with projecting gabled doorcase with moulded rendered verges and skew-corbels, Norman-headed columns supporting round-headed arch with moulded archivolt with chevrons, and rendered cross set into oculus with flushed rendered surrounds; timber double doors with decorative wrought-iron strap hinges, moulded rendered corners to reveals with chamfer-stops. Interior with plastered walls, timber framed plaster panelled canted ceiling with timber knee-braces on carved stone corbels, gallery to west on cast-iron columns; carved marble altar; carved stone and marble font. Set in graveyard with gravemarkers from 1909 to present; modern railings and rendered boundary wall to site with wrought and cast-iron gates on chamfered rendered piers with round-headed valley caps on moulded dentilated cornice.