Catholic Church of Saint Coan and Saint Brogán

Church/chapel in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1855–1865

Detached twelve-bay single- and two-storey Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1860, comprising ten-bay double-height nave with ten-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to north-west and to south-east having single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south, and two-bay double-height lower chancel to north-east with two-bay single-storey chapel to east, and two-bay two-storey sacristy to north. Pitched slate roofs (lean-to to side aisles; gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping having cross finials to apexes (bellcote to apex to sacristy), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Broken coursed squared limestone walls with buttresses, and stepped buttresses to south-west and to north-east. Pointed-arch window openings with paired lancet lights having quatrefoil to arch in cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, and hood mouldings over with cut-limestone voussoirs. Pointed-arch window opening over entrance to south-west and to chancel with five trefoil-headed lights having octafoils and trefoils to arches in cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds with chamfered reveals, and hood mouldings over with cut-limestone voussoirs. Fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows to all window openings. Quatrefoil window openings to porch in cut-sandstone surrounds with fixed-pane fittings. Shouldered square-headed door opening to so

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1855–1865

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.28°N, 7.44°W

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