Holy Trinity Catholic Church

Monastery, church/chapel in Limerick, Ireland, dating from 1220–1860

Freestanding Roman Catholic church, restored in 1811 and in 1852-53, incorporating fabric of an earlier abbey, built c. 1230. Comprising gable-fronted nineteenth-century nave with recessed lower gabled-fronted thirteenth-century nave to south having nineteenth-century gabled porch to south elevation. Square-profile two-stage tower rising from central section of south nave. Two-bay single-storey sacristy with pitched roof to north-east corner of north nave with three-bay two-storey pitched-roofed block attached to west. Gable-fronted chapel to east of north elevation. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge crestings and dressed limestone copings, carved limestone cross finials to gables. Cut limestone battlemented parapet to south nave and to tower with carved limestone eaves course. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked cut limestone walls to north nave, porch and gabled chapel, with cut limestone buttresses. Rubble limestone plinth wall to east elevation. Rubble limestone walls to south nave and tower, walls to tower with batter. Rubble stone buttress to south-west corner and south-east and north-east corners of nave. Rubble limestone walls to sacristy and cut limestone walls to block to west of sacristy. Pointed arch opening to west elevation of south nave with carved limestone Y-tracery, hoodmoulding and stained glass window. Carved limestone sill incorporating carved limest

Type:
Monastery, church/chapel

Period:
1220–1860

Where:
Limerick, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.56°N, 8.79°W

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