Catholic Church of the Holy Cross

Church/chapel in Sligo, Ireland, dating from 1840–1850

Attached single-bay double-height chancel, built 1845-8, to designs by Sir John Benson (1812-74) originally forming part of larger church. Modified, 1972-3, to accommodate use as chapel and linked by single-storey cloister to replacement church (1972-3). Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, ashlar limestone verges with corbelled and pedimented springers, cast-iron gutters on corbelled eaves course. Coursed squared rubble limestone walls with cut-limestone dressings. Pointed-arched window openings with cut-limestone surrounds, perpendicular tracery, and leaded stained glass lights. Triple pointed-arch chancel screen on polished granite clustered columns. Mosaic tiled walls with arcaded marble altar.

Type:

Church/chapel

Period:

1840–1850

Where:

Sligo, Ireland

Coordinates:

54.27°N, 8.47°W

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