Saint Columba's Hospital

Hospital/infirmary in Sligo, Ireland, dating from 1850–1855

Detached multiple-bay three-storey over basement stone former mental hospital, built c. 1852, being converted at time of recording for residential apartments. Symmetrically composed front elevation facing south; forward projecting central five-bay block, four-stage flanking towers, side wings each with two five-bay sections separated by forward-projecting gabled wings with canted bays and terminated at east and west ends by similar, but wider and deeper, wings; further wings extend to sides and rear. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, moulded ashlar limestone chimneys on ridge of central block and front elevation of wings, cast-iron moulded gutters. Coursed rubble limestone walling with ashlar dressings including moulded strings, flat quoins, moulded cornices to projecting central, intermediate and terminal wings, pinnacled Dutch gables to wings. Campanile-style flanking towers to central section have deeply coved, cornices surmounted by four-bay blind belfries set behind wrought-iron balustrading with projecting pyramid roofs capped with wood-cored lead sheet and wrought-iron compass finials. Square-headed window openings, painted timber transoms and mullions with plain-glazed sashes behind. Aluminium double-glazed casement windows to wings. Entrance set within single-storey flat-roofed ashlar portico with round-headed arch with alternating projecting and receding voussoir

Type:
Hospital/infirmary

Period:
1850–1855

Where:
Sligo, Ireland

Coordinates:
54.28°N, 8.46°W

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