Saint Conleth's Catholic Church

Church/chapel in Kildare, Ireland, dating from 1845–1860

Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1847-59, on a cruciform plan comprising five-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to north-east and to south-west, single-bay double-height chancel to south-east having four-bay single-storey flanking bays (including sacristy projection), and single-bay four-stage entrance tower to north-west on a square plan having single-bay single-storey lean-to flanking porches. Gable-ended roofs on a cruciform plan with slate (gable-ended to flanking ranges to south-east; pyramidal to tower; lean-to to flanking porches). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack to flanking range. Cut-stone coping to gables with cross finials to apexes. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Rendered walls. Unpainted. Cut-stone dressings including quoins to corners. Rendered dressings including stepped buttresses (clasping to tower) with cut-stone coping. Cut-stone string/sill course to nave. Cut-stone stringcourses to each stage to tower. Lancet-arch window openings to nave. Cut-stone sill course. Cut-stone hood mouldings over. Traceried (three-light) windows to transepts. Cut-stone sills. Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds. Traceried (five-light) window to chancel to south-east. Cut-stone sills. Cut-stone block-and-start surround with lancet-arch relieving arch over having cut-stone voussoirs. Fixed-pane stained glass w

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1845–1860

Where:
Kildare, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.18°N, 6.79°W

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