Saint Mary's Catholic Church

Church/chapel in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1825–1830

Detached seven-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, built 1828. Extended, c.1880, comprising three-bay single-storey range to south-east having single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to north-east, and three-bay single-storey range to north-west having single-bay single-storey projecting bay to west with canted corners. Renovated, c.1980, with single-bay single-storey projecting porch added to north-east. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles having copper-clad vents to ridge, cut-stone coping to gables with cut-stone bellcote to gable to south-east (comprising round-headed opening containing cast-iron bell with gable over), and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves having consoles. Hipped slate roof to range to south-east (pitched to porch behind gabled parapet) with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Roof to range to north-west not visible behind parapet. Elevated pyramidal copper-clad roof to porch to north-east on flat roof base. Unpainted roughcast walls to nave with cut-limestone stepped buttress (diagonal to corners) having elongated pinnacles. Unpainted roughcast walls to range to south-east with broken coursed squared sandstone walls to porch having stepped buttresses, and cut-stone coping to gable. Unpainted roughcast walls to range to north-west with cut-limestone quoins and panels having moulde

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1825–1830

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.09°N, 7.62°W

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