Saint Patrick's Catholic Church

Church/chapel in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1840–1845

Detached seven-bay single- and two-storey Gothic Revival Catholic church, dated 1842, on site of earlier Catholic chapel, pre-1840, comprising seven-bay double-height nave with seven-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to north and to south, and two-bay single-storey sacristy to east. Renovated, 1924. Renovated, 1983-5. Part refenestrated, post-2000. Pitched slate roofs (lean-to to side aisles behind parapets) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone chamfered coping to gables having cut-limestone gabled bellcote to apex to east (with pointed-arch aperture on cut-limestone chamfered course, iron bell, and cut-limestone coping to gable), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves (having consoles to sacristy). Tooled limestone ashlar walls with full-height octagonal corner piers to west having advanced stages on corbel tables rising to gabled trefoil-headed panelled octagonal pinnacles having elongated octagonal finials, stringcourse over entrance bay, inscribed shield plaques to upper level, recessed niche to gable on moulded table having statuary, cut-limestone frieze supporting cut-limestone chamfered coping to gable having decorative cross finial to apex, and clasping stepped buttresses to corners to side aisles supporting tooled limestone ashlar parapets on console tables having cut-limestone chamfered coping. Pointed-arch window openings (in tripartite arrangement

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1840–1845

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.79°N, 7.33°W

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