Saint Mary's Church (Callan)

Church/chapel in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1455–1465

Detached seven-bay double-height rubble stone medieval parish church, built 1460, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier church, c.1250, comprising three-bay double-height nave with four-bay double-height chancel to east having single-bay double-height lower vestry to south, and single-bay three-stage tower, c.1250, to west on a square plan. Completed, 1530, with three-bay double-height side aisles added to north and to south. Renovated, pre-1837, with chancel converted to use as Church of Ireland church. Closed, pre-1973. Now disused with nave and side aisles now in ruins. Pitched slate roof to chancel (pitched slate roof to vestry) with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on squared rubble limestone eaves having cut-limestone corbels. Pitched roofs to remainder now gone with roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Random rubble limestone walls (traces of unpainted roughcast over to vestry having sections of red brick irregular bond construction to gable) with slight plinth batter, cut-limestone stringcourse over, dressed stone quoins to corners, cut-limestone coping to gables having remains of cross finials to apexes, and Irish battlemented parapet to tower on cut-stone stringcourse. Pointed-arch window openings to chancel with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over, Y-mullions forming bipartite ellipt

Type:

Church/chapel

Period:

1455–1465

Where:

Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:

52.54°N, 7.39°W

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