Saint Paul's Church (Fiddown)

Church/chapel in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1855–1865

Detached three-bay double-height Hard Gothic Revival Church of Ireland church, built 1859-62, with two-bay double-height lower chancel to east having two-bay single-storey lean-to vestry to north-east, and single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to west. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles (profiled to nave), cut-stone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, cut-stone gabled bellcote to apex to west (having trefoil-headed aperture in pointed-arch frame on stringcourse with cast-iron bell, and cut-stone coping), cut-stone chimney stack to vestry, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Gabled cut-stone roof to porch with buttress to apex (supporting rose window over). Irregular coursed squared rubble stone walls with cut-limestone dressings including quoins to corners, quoins to stepped buttresses, and medallion to gable to west having cross detail with moulded course over. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone sills forming sill course, cut-stone surrounds having chamfered reveals, Y-mullions forming bipartite lancet arrangement (tripartite lancet arrangement to some openings) with trefoil to arch, squared rubble stone voussoirs over, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Paired trefoil-headed window openings to chancel in lancet recesses with cut-limestone sills, cut-stone surrounds having chamfered reveals,

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1855–1865

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.35°N, 7.32°W

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