Saint Lachtain's Church (Freshford)

Church/chapel in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1725–1735

Detached three-bay double-height Church of Ireland church, built 1730, on a corner site incorporating fabric of medieval abbey, c.750, with two-bay double-height lower chancel to east, and single-bay single-storey gabled advanced open porch/doorcase, 1133, to west. Undergoing renovation, 2004. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having gabled bellcote to apex to west (with shouldered square-headed aperture having chamfered reveals, cast-iron bell, trefoil piercing over, and cut-stone coping to gable), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone consoles. Random rubble stone walls with buttress piers to west, cut-sandstone walls to porch/doorcase having paired colonettes supporting stringcourse, frieze, archivolt, and cut-stone coping to steeply-pitched gable having raised detail to gable. Pointed-arch window openings with red brick or cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds, cut-stone Y-mullions and tracery (forming bipartite profile-headed arrangement to nave having decorative pseudo-quatrefoil overlight to arch; tripartite pointed-arch arrangement to chancel having decorative pseudo-quatrefoil overlights to arch), and fixed-pane fittings having diamond-leaded panels with some having leaded stained glass panels. Oculus window to gable to west with cut-sandstone surround having saw-tooth detailing, and fixed-pane fitting. Round-headed door openi

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1725–1735

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.73°N, 7.40°W

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