Saint Patrick's Catholic Church — Ballybetagh Road

Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1908-9; dedicated 1909, on a rectangular plan comprising six-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (north). Renovated with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs with perforated crested clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite ogee corbel kneelers with wrought iron Cross finials to apexes, cut-granite coping to gable to entrance (south) front on cut-granite ogee corbel kneelers with granite ashlar buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing embossed cast-bronze bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed coursed or snecked rock faced granite battered walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on coursed or snecked rock faced granite plinth with drag edged rock faced cut-granite buttresses to corners having cut-granite "slated" coping. Round-headed window openings with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having square leaded glazing bars. Round-headed "Trinity Window" to chancel (north) with cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Round-headed door opening to entrance (south) front with two cut-granite steps, cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Quatrefoil "Rose Window" (gable) in round-headed recess, cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Interior including vestibule (south) with herring bone-pattern terracotta tiled floor; full-height interior open into roof with stained glass "Rose Window" (south), herring bone-pattern terracotta tiled central aisle between timber pews, paired Gothic-style timber stations between frosted glass windows, trefoil-perforated exposed round arch braced collared timber roof construction on cut-granite "Cavetto" corbels with wind braced timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling in carved timber frame on carved timber cornice, and round-headed chancel arch framing terracotta tiled stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered with replacement cut-granite altar below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (1925). Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site including terrace centred on flight of five cut-granite steps.