Catholic Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Church/chapel in Wexford, Ireland, dating from 1840–1850

Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1844-8; dedicated 1851, on a rectangular plan comprising seven-bay double-height nave opening into seven-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles. Renovated, 1898-9, with interior "improved". Consecrated, 1899. Renovated, 1946-8, with interior "improved". Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. "Restored", 1998-9. Pitched slate roof with lean-to slate roofs to side aisles, lichen-covered ridge tiles, cut-granite "Cavetto" coping to gables on cut-granite kneelers including cut-granite "Cavetto" coping to gable to entrance (west) front on trefoil-detailed gabled cut-granite kneelers with granite ashlar buttressed gabled double bellcote to apex framing cast-iron bells, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed tuck pointed coursed rubble stone battered walls with hammered granite flush quoins to corners; part repointed tuck pointed coursed rubble stone surface finish (east) with stepped buttresses having cut-granite "slated" coping. Cusped or trefoil-headed lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel (east), cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1840–1850

Where:
Wexford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.34°N, 6.54°W

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