Saint Patrick's Catholic Church

Church/chapel in Mayo, Ireland, dating from 1910–1920

Detached eight-bay double-height Catholic church, designed 1914; built 1914-8; opened 1918, on a rectangular plan comprising eight-bay double-height nave opening into eight-bay double-height flat-roofed side aisles; single-bay four-stage engaged tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Renovated, 1971, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof abutting flat roofs behind parapets (side aisles), clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gables including lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gable (east) with dragged cut-limestone Celtic Cross finial to apex, and concealed rainwater goods retaining rosette-embossed cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Part repointed tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone battered walls with margined rock faced sandstone battered piers including margined rock faced sandstone battered piers to corners supporting parapets on tooled cut-sandstone dentil consoles having lichen-spotted cut-granite chamfered coping; part repointed tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone battered walls (tower) with "arrow loop"-detailed margined rock faced sandstone parapet having cut-granite chamfered coping. Round-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement in square-headed recesses with dragged cut-limestone engaged colonette mullions, and margined rock faced sandstone ashlar voussoirs with "Cavetto" hood mouldings framing storm glazing over

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1910–1920

Where:
Mayo, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.89°N, 9.54°W

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