Saint Nicholas's Collegiate Church

Church/chapel in Galway, Ireland, dating from 1310–1600

Freestanding cruciform-plan Anglican/Episcopal Church, built c.1320, chancel, transepts and nave arcades being of original phase. South side aisle and south porch are of early sixteenth century and built by Dominick Duff Lynch, crossing tower is c.1500, north side aisle is 1538-83. South transept extended c.1561, first floor of latter built as private chapel of builder Nicholas Lynch. Later additions are vestry and organ projection to north of chancel and room at re-entrant corner between south side aisle and south transept. Building has triple-gabled front to west, three-bay nave with side-aisles, three-bay transept to north and two-bay transept to south, three-bay chancel with three-bay single-storey vestry to its north side and later extension of c.1600 to west side of vestry. Single-bay two-storey projection to south side of nave has porch to ground floor and external stairs access to former private chapel on first floor. Single-bay side chapels to north side of northern side aisle. Square-plan towers to south-west corner of south transept and to re-entrant corner to west side of north transept. Square-plan crenellated tower to crossing of church, with copper-clad spire having pitched dormer projections, east and west sides having clock faces and other sides having louvered round openings, and having decorative cast-iron finials to spire and to dormers. Pitched slate roofs

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1310–1600

Where:
Galway, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.27°N, 9.05°W

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