Saint Mary's Church (Gowran)
Church/chapel in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1870–1875
Attached four-bay double-height Church of Ireland church, built 1871, on a rectangular plan comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay full-height chancel (east). Restored, 1994-5. Pitched slate roof with chevron- or saw tooth-crested roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gable on drag edged tooled cut-limestone gabled "Cavetto" kneelers with Cross finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron square profile downpipes. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on lichen-covered cut-limestone "slated" plinth with drag edged tooled cut-limestone buttresses having cut-limestone "slated" coping including benchmark-inscribed piers to corners having cut-limestone "slated" coping. Pointed-arch window openings on cut-limestone stringcourse with dragged cut-limestone mullions, and dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Trefoil-headed lancet window openings (east) on lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered stringcourse, dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chance
- Type:
- Church/chapel
- Period:
- 1870–1875
- Where:
- Kilkenny, Ireland
- Coordinates:
- 52.63°N, 7.06°W
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