White Abbey Catholic Church

Church/chapel in Kildare, Ireland, dating from 1880–1890

Detached seven-bay double-height Gothic Revival Carmelite Catholic church, built 1884-9, on a cruciform plan comprising four-bay double-height nave with two-bay double-height transepts to north-west and to south-east having single-bay single-storey chapel to west and two-bay single-storey sacristy projection to south, single-bay double-height chancel to south-west having single-bay double-height polygonal apse, single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance bay to north-east and single-bay four-stage corner tower to east on a square plan with broach spire. Gable-ended roofs with slate (gabled to chapel to west and to porch to north-east; half-polygonal to apse). Decorative red clay crested ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables with cross finials to apexes. Cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves course. Cut-granite broach spire to tower with lucarnes. Broken coursed squared limestone walls. Cut-granite dressings including stepped clasping buttresses having quoins and triangular capping, stringcourses (profiled stringcourse over entrance bay to north-east), and cut-stone course to eaves. Cut-granite dressings to porch including piers having chamfered corners with engaged colonettes, and decorative panel over door opening having lancet-arch hood moulding over. Cut-granite dressings to tower including clasping buttresses, quoins to corners, and stringcourse to

Type:

Church/chapel

Period:

1880–1890

Where:

Kildare, Ireland

Coordinates:

53.16°N, 6.92°W

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