Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour — Stillorgan Road

Detached ten-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1933-5, on a rectangular plan comprising nine-bay double-height nave opening into nine-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles centred on single-bay double-height apse (north) on a half-octagonal plan; single-bay four-stage tower (south-west) on a square plan. Renovated with sanctuary reordered. Pitched profiled terracotta tile roof; lean-to profiled terracotta tile roofs (side aisles); half-octagonal profiled terracotta tile roof (apse), terracotta ridge tiles with Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite corbelled stepped cornices retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked granite walls with cut-granite stepped battered buttresses; tuck pointed snecked granite wall to entrance (south) front on cut-granite moulded cushion course on snecked granite plinth with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Round-headed window openings (clerestorey) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having "bas-relief" stepped reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Round-headed window openings (side aisles) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having "bas-relief" stepped reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Round-headed door opening to entrance (south) front approached by two cut-granite steps with cut-granite block-and-start surround having stepped rebated reveals framing timber boarded double doors. Grouped round-headed window openings to gable with cut-granite engaged colonette mullions supporting granite ashlar archivolts with "Cavetto" hood mouldings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Interior including vestibule (south); round-headed door opening into nave; full-height interior open into roof with organ gallery (south) supporting timber panelled pipe organ, herring bone-pattern timber parquet central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, round-headed arcades on Composite pillars, exposed strutted King post timber roof construction on fluted corbels with wind braced timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling in carved timber frame, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered with cut-veined white marble altar, carpeted stepped daises to side altars supporting cut-veined white marble panelled altars, and exposed strutted timber roof construction (side aisles) with wind braced timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceilings on carved timber cornices. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site.