Catholic Church of Sacred Heart

Church/chapel in Waterford, Ireland, dating from 1900–1905

Detached seven-bay single- and two-storey Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1904, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier church, 1834, on site comprising five-bay double-height nave with five-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to north-east and to south-west, single-bay double-height transepts to north-east and to south-west, single-bay double-height lower chancel to south-east having single-bay single-storey over raised basement flanking bays, and single-bay three-stage tower, dated 1867, to north-west on a square plan having polygonal broach spire. Pitched slate roofs (lean-to to side aisles) behind parapets with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Limestone ashlar polygonal broach spire to tower on moulded profiled cut-limestone band with cut-limestone dressings including quoins. Broken coursed rock-faced snecked limestone walls with cut-limestone dressings including piers to nave and to side aisles, stepped buttresses to chancel, and battlemented parapets on moulded stringcourses. Broken coursed snecked limestone walls to tower with cut-limestone dressings including stringcourses, bands, and stepped clasping corner buttresses. Paired cinquefoil window openings to nave forming clere-storey with cut-stone surrounds having squared limestone voussoirs. Paired trefoil-headed window openings to side

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1900–1905

Where:
Waterford, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.27°N, 7.10°W

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