Catholic Church of the Assumption

Church/chapel in Wexford, Ireland, dating from 1850–1860

Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic church, begun 1851; completed 1858; dated 1858, on a rectangular plan comprising seven-bay double-height nave opening into seven-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles; single-bay four-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan supporting broach spire. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof; lean-to slate roofs (side aisles), roll moulded cut-granite ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on trefoil-detailed gabled kneelers with Cross finial to apex (east), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed coursed or snecked "Old Red Sandstone" walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with cut-granite flush quoins to corners; tuck pointed coursed or snecked "Old Red Sandstone" walls (tower) on benchmark-inscribed cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with clasping stepped buttresses to corners having cut-granite "slated" coping. Paired pointed-arch window openings (clerestorey) between cast-iron cruciform tie plates, cut-granite mullions, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch window openings (side aisles) with cut-granite mullions, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered r

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1850–1860

Where:
Wexford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.33°N, 6.46°W

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