Catholic Church of Our Lady and Saint David

Church/chapel in Kildare, Ireland, dating from 1825–1830

Detached four-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, built 1827, with single-bay double-height lower chancel to south-east having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed flanking bays (including sacristy projection). Renovated, 1858, with single-bay three-stage tower added to north-west on a square plan with broach spire. Renovated, c.1860, with two-bay two-storey double-pile baptistery added to south-east. Renovated, c.1890, with single-bay two-storey gabled projecting bay added to south-east to baptistery with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to ground floor. Renovated, 1953, with group of three single-bay single-storey flat-roofed yellow brick projecting blocks added to south-west (including mortuary chapel). Renovated, c.1990, with single-bay double-height flat-roofed chapel added to tower to north-west with full-height projecting bay to north-west on a triangular plan. Gable-ended roofs with slate (behind battlemented parapet walls to gables to nave). Clay ridge tiles. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on iron brackets. Granite ashlar broach spire to tower with gabled lucarnes. Flat-roofs to additional bays behind blocking courses/parapet walls. Materials not visible. Iron cross finial. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Cut-stone dressings including quoins to corners, stringcourses, stepped buttresses (some clasping to corners). Rubble stone battlemented

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1825–1830

Where:
Kildare, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.22°N, 6.66°W

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