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Saint Michael's Catholic Church

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Saint Michael's Catholic Church
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Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built c.1885, having a single-storey canted bay window to the east facing side elevation. Hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves and with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots over. Roughcast rendered walls, mostly covered in creeper. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central round-headed doorcase to the front façade (south) having a timber panelled door with wide fanlight over having margin glazing bars/pattern with coloured glass panels. Set back from road in extensive mature shared grounds with associated church to the south (15318003). Entrance gates to the southwest (to the rear of the church) comprising a pair of rendered gate piers on square-plan supporting wrought-iron decorative gates. Located to the north end of Castletown Geoghegan.
A typically solid and well-proportioned late nineteenth-century Roman Catholic parochial house, which retains its early form and character. This building is very characteristic of its type and date and retains much of its early fabric, including timber sliding sash windows. The plain form of the front façade is enlivened by the very wide doorcase, which has an attractive fanlight over with decorative coloured glass panels and margin glazing bars. The canted bay to the east elevation breaks up the rigidity of the plan and the building is softened by the creeper and mature landscaping. Situated between the town's Roman Catholic church (15318003) and the cemetery (15318001), this parochial house forms part of an important group of related structures and is an integral element of the built heritage of the local area. The good quality wrought-iron gates to the south complete the setting.

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