Saint Paul's Church (Caher)

Church/chapel in Tipperary south, Ireland, dating from 1815–1820

Freestanding cruciform-plan church, built 1816-18, with five-bay nave having gable-fronts to all windows, vestry to north elevation, crossing tower with spire, and entrance gable-front flanked by towers with spires. Pitched slate roof, with decorative ridge cresting, octagonal-plan ashlar limestone spires, cut limestone copings to all gables, crenellations to parapets at east end, gabled pinnacles to nave window gables having flared octagonal conical cut limestone pinnacles over buttresses between bays, octagonal miniature tourelles to corners of chancel and transepts supported on moulded corbels and topped with stepped conical pinnacles. Crossing tower has snecked cut limestone walls, moulded string courses, engaged octagonal buttresses to corners topped by pinnacles similar to those of chancel and transepts, crenellated parapets and octagonal spire with finial. Coursed cut limestone walls with battered plinth course and stepped buttresses between nave bays and to vestry. Pointed arch mullioned and transomed window openings to nave, triple-light windows to transepts and east elevation, all with chamfered surrounds, hood-mouldings and timber frame windows with stained glass. Reticulated tracery to upper transepts and east end of chancel, mullioned and transomed to nave with lattice glazing and three-light. Square-headed window openings with chamfered surrounds, label-mouldings

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1815–1820

Where:
Tipperary south, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.38°N, 7.92°W

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