Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart and Saint Brigid

Church/chapel in Kildare, Ireland, dating from 1865–1875

Detached seven-bay single- and two-storey Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1869-72, comprising seven-bay double-height nave with seven-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to north-west and to south-east having single-bay single-storey gabled advanced bays (including porches), single-bay full-height bowed apse to south-west and single-bay single-storey sacristy projection to south-east. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roof with slate (alternating square and fish-scale slate courses; lean-to to side aisles with gables to advanced bays; half-conical to apse; hipped to sacristy projection). Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables with cross finials to apexes. Cast-iron rainwater goods on corbelled eaves course. Rock-faced irregular coursed cut-limestone walls. Cut-stone dressings including stepped buttresses with gabled gapping, quoins to corners, carved medallions flanking entrance bay to north-east, statuary over entrance in decorative surround and continuous string/sill courses. Paired lancet-arch window openings to north-east and to apse in cut-stone lancet-arch surrounds having quatrefoil motif over and cut-stone voussoirs. Decorative rose window to gable with cut-stone surround having cut-stone voussoirs. Trefoil-headed window openings (tripartite arrangement) to side aisles with cut-stone continuous sill course, block-and start surrounds and stringcourse to spring of

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1865–1875

Where:
Kildare, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.13°N, 6.74°W

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