Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception

Church/chapel in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1835–1845

Detached six-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1836-43, on site of earlier chapel, pre-1840, comprising five-bay double-height nave with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porches to centre ground floor, single-bay three-stage projecting entrance bay to east, and single-bay double-height lower chancel to west having single-bay single-storey sacristy with half-attic to west. Undergoing renovation, 2004 (completed, 2005). Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limestone ashlar eaves. Limestone ashlar walls to front (east) elevation with cut-limestone dressings including full-height (three-stage) octagonal corner turrets to entrance bay having profiled sections between stringcourses originally supporting finials, moulded stringcourse to first floor, lancet recess over entrance with carved surround framing statuary, stepped buttresses to flanking bays (clasping to corners), broken coursed squared sandstone walls to remainder having limestone ashlar dressings including stepped buttresses, moulded course to first floor supporting square-headed recesses with limestone ashlar quoins to intermediary piers having chamfered reveals, and console tables over. Pointed-arch window openings to entrance bay with cut-limestone sill course, chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, Y

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1835–1845

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.80°N, 7.21°W

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