Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption

Cathedral in Galway, Ireland, dating from 1825–1835

Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption, built 1827-31, and designed in fourteenth-century Gothic style, with three-stage tower at north-west end. Five-bay nave, with bay flanking tower, and having rectangular chancel at east end flanked by minor chapels. Pitched slate roofs to main body, roof of tower not visible. Main roofs have parapers with base moulding and crenellations. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone walls having base moulding, with square-plan three-stage clasping buttresses to corners of building, those to west front and transepts being recessed and octagonal above bottom stage, with arcade detail to top stage, and topped by crocketed pinnacles. Buttresses to east end topped with open work having having cusped heads to openings set in gablets topped with sculpted finials and flanked by clasping buttresses having crocketed pinnacles, that to apex also having quatrefoil detail and elaborate moulded corbel support. Stages of tower defined by string courses. Octagonal clasping buttresses to tower topped by crocketed pinnacles, latter linked by openwork screens with cusped pointed arch openings, pinnacles to middle supported on moulded corbels. Copings to east end gable are openwork screens with quatrefoil details set in squares. Parapets to blocks flanking chancel have parapets comprising crenellations having cusped

Type:
Cathedral

Period:
1825–1835

Where:
Galway, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.51°N, 8.85°W

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