Duiske Abbey Catholic Church

Church/chapel in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1200–1215

Detached ten-bay double-height Catholic abbey, founded 1204-12, on a cruciform plan on a corner site comprising six-bay double-height nave with three-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles (originally six-bay single-storey) having single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to north, single-bay (two-bay deep) double-height transepts to north and to south, and three-bay double-height chancel to east having two-bay single-storey lean-to sacristy to south. Dissolved, 1536. In ruins, pre-1774-post-1810. Reconstructed 1812, to accommodate use as church. Restored, 1974-80. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan (lean-to to side aisles behind parapet; gabled to porch; lean-to to sacristy) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables having belfry to apex to west (comprising rusticated limestone ashlar base on a square plan with cast-iron clock faces, cut-limestone coping supporting cut-limestone piers forming tapered open stage with cast-iron bell, and moulded cornice having ogee-dome over with wrought iron weathervane on finial), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Random rubble stone walls (originally rendered with render removed, 1974-80) with sections of unpainted replacement roughcast walls, 1974-80, rubble stone buttress piers incorporating cut-stone quoins having cut-limestone coping, some full-height square-headed recesses to nave having corbel

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1200–1215

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.54°N, 6.95°W

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