Kylemore Abbey

Church/chapel in Galway, Ireland, dating from 1875–1885

Freestanding Gothic Revival Church of Ireland church over crypt, built 1877-81, comprising four-bay nave with gabled bays to side elevations, chancel to east and transept to south both having three-bay sides, gabled porch to west-end bay of south elevation and four-stage crenellated bell tower to south-east corner housing vestry to ground floor. Pitched copper-clad ridged roofs throughout having cut limestone eaves courses, tooled limestone copings to all gables with sculpted cross finials concealing gutters, cast-iron downpipes throughout with embossed hopper heads, tooled limestone dripstones between gables of nave bays with sculpted angel figures to undersides. Limestone crenellated parapet to tower having octagonal-plan ashlar limestone pinnacles to corners with crocheted finials. Dressed rubble limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins, and rubble limestone plinth to south and east and west elevations with chamfered limestone capping. Rubble limestone stepped clasping buttresses to all sections of structure having ashlar limestone quoins, chamfered coping stones and steeply chamfered bases having tooled limestone capping stones with various decorative elements. Tooled limestone string course to south-facing elevations of nave, transept and tower with further string courses separating stages of tower. Round-headed recesses to side elevations of nave below angel dripstone

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1875–1885

Where:
Galway, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.56°N, 9.88°W

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