Saint Mary's Church (Dungarvan)

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

Detached two-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1831, on a T-shaped plan comprising single-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to east and to west, and single-bay single-storey vestry to south. Reoriented and extended, 1900, comprising single-bay four-stage entrance tower to north on a square plan with two-bay double-height lower chancel added to west having single-bay single-storey vestry to south. Pitched slate roofs (on a T-shaped plan to original block) with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having cut-stone pinnacles to original block, rendered chimney stack to original vestry, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Irregular coursed squared limestone walls to original block with unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls to rear (south) elevation. Irregular coursed squared limestone walls to additional ranges with cut-limestone dressings to tower including diagonal stepped clasping buttresses to corners, moulded stringcourses to each stage, and moulded course to top (bell) stage having battlemented parapet over in pseudo-crow-stepped style. Pointed-arch window openings to original block with cut-stone chamfered block-and-start surrounds, hood mouldings over, and mullions and tracery forming paired lancet arrangement. Lancet window openings to west

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1830–1835

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.09°N, 7.62°W

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