Saint Kieran's College

College in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1835–1840

Detached nineteen-bay two-storey over part-raised basement Tudor Revival college (seminary), established 1836, comprising single-bay (four-bay deep) double-height projecting central chapel with nine-bay two-storey recessed flanking lateral wings (east wing completed, 1838; west wing completed, 1839) having single-bay two-storey gabled projecting central bays with canted oriel windows to first floor, and nine-bay three-storey over raised basement rear (north) elevations. Renovated and extended, 1875, comprising single-bay two-storey gabled projecting terminating block with attic to right (east) having two-storey canted bay window, five-bay two-storey side elevations, and series of elliptical-headed openings added to lateral wings forming arcade flanking projecting bays. Completed, 1955, comprising single-bay two-storey over part-raised basement gabled projecting terminating block with half-dormer attic to left (west) having three-stage canted bay window, and six-bay four-storey side (west) elevation. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to projecting bays and to terminating blocks; gablets to window openings to first floor to lateral wings in form of half-dormer attic windows) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone chimney stacks (having grouped (five-part arrangement) chamfered flues to lateral wings), cut-limestone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater

Type:
College

Period:
1835–1840

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.65°N, 7.26°W

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