Saint Brigid's Catholic Church

Attached three-bay two-storey presbytery, built 1831, on a rectangular plan centred on (single-storey) prostyle distyle portico to ground floor. Refenestrated, 2000. Hipped slate roof with ridge tiles, paired grey brick Running bond central chimney stacks having precast concrete corbelled stepped capping supporting louvered terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast walls on moulded cushion course on rendered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening behind (single-storey) prostyle distyle portico with columns on plinths supporting iron-covered cornice on blind frieze on entablature, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters supporting shallow cornice, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Saint Brigid's Catholic Church with "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed wrought iron railings to perimeter centred on "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed wrought iron gate.

A presbytery representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one rooted firmly in the contemporary Georgian fashion, suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a pillared doorcase showing a pretty fanlight; and the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated tiered visual effect. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior: the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings, however, has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a presbytery forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside the adjoining Saint Brigid's Catholic Church (see 15613003) with the resulting ecclesiastical ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural village setting.slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated tiered visual effect. However, while the elementary form and massing prevail together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and allegedly to the interior, the introduction of replacement fittings to most of the openings has not had a beneficial impact on the character or integrity of a presbytery forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside the adjoining church with the resulting ecclesiastical ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural village street scene.