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Saint Brendan's Hospital — Grangegorman Lower

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Saint Brendan's Hospital — Grangegorman Lower
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Freestanding cruciform-plan Church of Ireland church, built 1860, comprising gable-fronted three-bay nave, single-bay full-height transepts to east and west elevations, canted full-height chancel to south, single-storey gable-fronted porch to front (north) of nave. Single-storey extension with hipped roof to west of chancel. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to chancel, limestone copings, terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods. Gabled carved limestone bellcote to apex of front elevation. Calp limestone to walls, tooled limestone block-and-start quoins, calp limestone plinth course with carved limestone capping. Pointed arch lancet windows to east and west elevation of transepts, arranged in groups of three, having tooled limestone surrounds, chamfered mullions and sills, shared carved limestone hood mouldings terminating in carved stops, calp voussoirs, steel grilles to windows. Single lancet windows to nave, chancel, transepts and sides of porch to front, with tooled chamfered limestone surrounds and sills, carved limestone label mouldings terminating in carved corbels, some stained glass windows, some blocked. Pointed arch door opening to front, tooled chamfered limestone surround, carved limestone hood moulding terminating in carved corbels, double-leaf timber battened door, granite step.

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