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Saint Columcille's Hospital — Bray Road

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Saint Columcille's Hospital — Bray Road
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Detached six-bay double-height over part basement Catholic chapel, designed 1900; built 1901-2; dated 1902, on a rectangular plan comprising five-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (west) with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (east) front. Renovated with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, cut-granite "slated" coping to gables with Cross finials to apexes including cut-granite "slated" coping to gable to entrance (east) front with granite ashlar buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing cast-bronze bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite chamfered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered cushion course on rendered, ruled and lined base with rendered, ruled and lined stepped buttresses including rendered, ruled and lined clasping stepped buttresses to corners to entrance (east) front having rendered coping. Paired lancet window openings with concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (west) with concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" to gable to entrance (east) front with concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Lancet window opening (porch) with concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Shouldered square-headed opposing door openings ("cheeks") with concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded doors. Interior including vestibule (east); camber-headed door opening into nave with concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing glazed diagonal timber boarded double doors having overlight; full-height interior open into roof with balustraded choir gallery (east) on cast-iron pillars below frosted glass "Trinity Window", linoleum tiled central aisle between timber pews, paired Gothic-style timber stations between frosted glass windows, timber panelled confessionals, exposed pointed-arch braced strutted collared timber roof construction on cut-granite octagonal corbels with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (west) reordered with stepped "predella" supporting pierced quatrefoil-detailed cut-veined white marble altar below frosted glass "Trinity Window". Set in landscaped grounds shared with Saint Columcille's Hospital.

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