Saint Mary's Catholic Church

Church/chapel in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1830–1835

Detached eight-bay double-height Classical-style Franciscan friary church, completed 1834, on a corner site comprising six-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height gabled flush transepts to north and to south, and single-bay double-height chancel to west having single-bay double-height bowed apse to west, two-bay single-storey sacristy to north-west, and single-bay five-stage tower to south-west on a square plan. Renovated, 1908. Renovated, 1930. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan (half-conical to apse; shallow pyramidal to tower) with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping having cross finials, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone profiled eaves. Painted rendered wall to entrance (east) front with cut-limestone dressings forming frontispiece including full-height pilasters having moulded necking, plain frieze, moulded cornice, and moulded pediment over entrance. Round-headed recessed niches to first floor outer bays with moulded rendered sills and surrounds, and statuary. Painted rendered parapet over with cut-stone dressings forming curvilinear profile. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls to remainder with cut-limestone dressings including piers to corners. Coursed tooled cut-limestone walls to tower with advanced corner piers, cut-stone stringcourses, and moulded cornice to top stage on corbels. Venetian window opening to entrance (east) front and to

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1830–1835

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.26°N, 7.11°W

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