Saint Columcille's Catholic Church

Church/chapel in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1835–1840

Detached seven-bay double-height single-cell Gothic-style Catholic church, built 1836-7, on site of earlier church, pre-1800. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having cross finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves having corbels. Granite ashlar wall to front (east) elevation with cut-granite dressings including gabled piers flanking entrance bay, full-height gabled panelled corner piers having elongated pinnacles, medallion to gable having decorative panel, double band over, and random rubble stone walls to remainder. Lancet window openings to nave with cut-stone sills, cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals, and fixed-pane timber fittings having lattice glazing. Pointed-arch window openings to east with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals, Y-mullions forming tripartite lancet arrangement over entrance bay having bipartite lancet arrangement to outer bays, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Tudor-headed door openings to east (in Tudor-headed recess to central bay) with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals (concave to outer bays), and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Pointed-arch door opening to nave with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Full-height interior with glazed timber panelled in

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1835–1840

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.49°N, 7.07°W

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