Catholic Church of the Assumption

Church/chapel in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1895–1900

Detached six-bay single- and two-storey Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1889-99, comprising six-bay double-height nave with shallow chancel to west, and six-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to north and to south having three-bay single-storey sacristy to south-west. Pitched slate roof (lean-to to side aisles; pitched to sacristy) with profiled clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limestone ashlar eaves. Irregular coursed rock-faced squared limestone walls with limestone ashlar dressings including quoins to gabled stepped buttresses (clasping corner buttresses to side aisles). Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone chamfered sills, block-and start surrounds having chamfered reveals, cut-limestone voussoirs over, Y-mullions forming bipartite lancet arrangement with quatrefoils to arches, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Cinquefoil window openings to nave forming clere-storey in cut-limestone surrounds having crow-stepped aprons, cut-limestone voussoirs over, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Rose window to gable to east on carved (moulded) cut-limestone stringcourse with cut-limestone crow-stepped apron, hood moulding over supporting cut-limestone voussoirs, colonette mullions separating trefoil-headed lights centred on quatrefoil, and

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1895–1900

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.35°N, 7.32°W

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