Saint Peter's Church

Church/chapel in Laois, Ireland, dating from 1800–1805

Free-standing double-height four-bay church, built 1804, with obelisk spire and apsidal sanctuary. Pitched slate roof, black clay ridge tiles, limestone ashlar fractable to either gable end, forming the raking cornice to pedimented entrance front, semi-conical slate roof to sanctuary. Cast-iron rainwater goods to limestone ashlar eaves. Limestone ashlar obelisk steeple surmounted by copper compass sphere on iron finial, sitting on square-plan plinth, plinth with round-headed window opening flanked by pairs of squat Doric pilasters supporting plain frieze and cornice; resting on a larger square-plan base with limestone ball finials to four corners. Coursed tooled limestone ashlar walling to nave. Each bay is set within a shallow cement rendered recess. Round-headed window openings at gallery level with limestone ashlar surrounds having keystones, impost mouldings and nosed sill; comprising pair of trefoil-headed openings with central limestone mullion and ocular opening with curved sills and stained glass windows, weather glazing. At ground level are a pair of segmental-headed window openings to either side elevation with limestone surrounds, with four-over-four timber sash windows, converse horns and cylinder glass, a similar opening to north with stained glass. Gabled west entrance front has a broken-topped pediment with central square-headed door opening with architrave surro

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1800–1805

Where:
Laois, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.03°N, 7.30°W

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