Saint Saviour's Catholic Church

Church/chapel in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1870–1880

Detached nine-bay double- and triple-height Italianate Dominican (Catholic) church, built 1872 - 1880, on a corner site comprising eight-bay triple-height nave with eight-bay double-height lean-to side aisles to north-east and to south-east, single-bay five-stage engaged corner tower to north on a square plan, and single-bay full-height bowed apse to south-east. Hipped slate roof (half-conical to apse; lean-to to side aisles) with clay ridge tiles, terracotta finials and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Ogee-domed lead-lined roof to tower with pinnacle to apex. Unpainted rendered walls to nave with moulded cut-stone cornice to eaves. Cut-limestone pedimented frontispiece to north-west with full-height Corinthian pilasters, panels with round-headed niches over having statuary, decorative heraldic shield, plain frieze and cut-stone surround to pediment with statuary to apex. Cut-stone blind arcade to aisle to north-east on cut-stone piers with necking and moulded archivolts. Cut-limestone full-height Corinthian corner pilasters to first two stages of tower with plain frieze over having cornice. Unpainted rendered walls to top stage to tower with cut-limestone corner pilasters, frieze, moulded stringcourse and consoled moulded cornice. Paired round-headed window openings to nave forming clere-storey with moulded surround to north-east having keystones. Fixed-pane lead

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1870–1880

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.26°N, 7.12°W

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