Saint Carthage's Catholic Church

Church/chapel in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1880–1885

Detached eight-bay double-height Lombardo Romanesque-style Catholic church, built 1881 – 1884, on a corner site comprising five-bay double-height nave with five-bay single-storey lean-to side aisle to north, four-bay single-storey lean-to side aisle to south having single-bay four-stage engaged corner tower to south-west on a square plan, single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south, single-bay double-height chancel to east having single-bay double-height apse with single-bay single-storey flanking bays to north and to south having single-bay single-storey lower chapels to north and to south with single-bay single-storey bowed apses, and two-bay single-storey sacristy to north-east. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan (lean-to to side aisles; half-conical to apse; gabled to lower flanking bays; hipped to sacristy) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves having corbels. Shallow pyramidal copper-clad roof to tower with cross finial to apex, and moulded cut-limestone eaves having consoles. Broken coursed squared red sandstone walls with limestone ashlar dressings including quoins to corners, moulded courses to each floor having consoles, and decorative detailing to gables. Paired round-headed window openings (some in tripartite arrangement including to north and to south elevat

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1880–1885

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.14°N, 7.93°W

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