Catholic Church of Saint John the Evangelist

Church/chapel in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1900–1910

Detached four-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1903-6/8, comprising four-bay double-height nave with four-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to east and to west, single-bay double-height lower chancel to south having single-bay double-height apse on a polygonal plan, single-bay single-storey flanking chapels continuing into single-bay (three-bay deep) single-storey over part-raised basement sacristy to south, and single-bay three-stage truncated entrance tower to north on a square plan having single-bay two-storey gabled flanking bays. Pitched slate roofs (lean-to to side aisles; half-polygonal to apse) with terracotta ridge tiles (rolled lead ridges to apse), cut-limestone coping to gables having cross finials to apex, gabled bellcote to side aisle to south on stepped buttress (with trefoil-headed aperture, and cut-limestone coping to gable), and cast-iron rainwater goods on limestone ashlar eaves having consoles. Roof to tower not visible. Coursed rock-faced cut-limestone walls with limestone ashlar dressings including stepped buttresses (gabled clasping buttresses to corners) having crocketed polygonal finials, moulded stringcourses to each level, trefoil-headed panelling to top stage to tower having engaged colonette mullions, and moulded course over (originally to support projected upper stage and spire). Trefoil-headed window openings (some paire

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1900–1910

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.65°N, 7.25°W

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