Catholic Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Church/chapel in Kildare, Ireland, dating from 1845–1850
Detached eight-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1847-9, with pointed-arch openings, single-bay double-height lower polygonal apse to north-east having single-bay single-storey sacristy projection to east and single-bay single-storey gabled advanced doorcase to south-west having single-bay three-stage flanking corner truncated towers on square plans. Gable-ended roof with slate (polygonal to apse; gable-ended to sacristy projection with gablet to window opening). Clay ridge tiles (red clay ridge tiles to sacristy projection). Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded eaves course. Roofs to towers not visible. Limestone ashlar walls. Cut-limestone dressings including intermediary buttresses along nave walls to north-west and to south-east, buttressed piers to towers having triangular detailing, cut-stone stringcourses and profiled panels to towers, moulded coping to summits having corbelled motifs, and cut-stone parapet wall over entrance bay with moulded coping having stylised Cross finial. Pointed-arch window openings to nave. Cut-limestone surrounds. Cut-stone traceried windows with paired trefoil-headed windows having trefoil openings to arches. Lancet-arch window openings to remainder (paired to second stage to towers). Cut-limestone chamfered reveals (with hood mouldings over openings to first stage; colonettes to centre of pair
- Type:
- Church/chapel
- Period:
- 1845–1850
- Where:
- Kildare, Ireland
- Coordinates:
- 53.14°N, 7.06°W
More places nearby
- Cassidy and Company (0.6 km)
- Monasterevin Charter School (0.7 km)
- High Bridge (0.7 km)
- Moore Abbey (1.0 km)
- Mount Saint Anne (5.7 km)
- Church of the Ascension (Lea) (5.9 km)
- Portarlington Railway Station (7.8 km)
- Emo Court (9.7 km)
Explore this and over 1.8 million other heritage records on Fornland, the free map of cultural heritage across northern and central Europe.