Saint Brendan's Catholic Cathedral

Cathedral in Galway, Ireland, dating from 1895–1905

Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic cathedral, facing north and with altar at south end. Construction commenced 1897 to design by William Byrne, and completed 1903. Comprises six-bay nave with lean-to side aisles, double-pile transepts, canted apse to south, three-bay sacristy at south-west corner at right angle to nave, square-plan four-stage tower to south-west corner and projecting slightly forward of front gable-front, and with lean-to porch at re-entrant corner of east transepts and side aisle. Limestone walls and details. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to apse, with clay ridge tiles, having tooled cross finials to gables and wrought-iron cross finials elsewhere, tooled bracket courses to eaves, and tooled kneelers and copings. Elaborate finial over buttress to north-west corner of front elevation having colonettes to corners with vegetal capitals, flanking blind lancet openings, with carved cornice topped by pyramidal roof with cross finial. Ashlar chimneystack to sacristy with stepped base and curved corners. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rock-faced snecked limestone walls with plinth course and tooled limestone decorative corbel course, and having stepped buttresses to tower, transepts and side aisles. Octagonal-plan spire to tower, with lucarnes to cardinal faces with trefoil-headed windows, tooled copings with cross finials, and with cross finial to top

Type:
Cathedral

Period:
1895–1905

Where:
Galway, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.20°N, 8.57°W

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