Church of the Immaculate Conception

Church/chapel in Cavan, Ireland, dating from 1865–1875

Freestanding Gothic Revival cruciform-plan four-bay double-height Roman Catholic church, built 1869-1872, with entrance gable facing south-west, four-bay nave having lower side ailes, single-bay transepts, sacristy to north, attached three-stage tower to east, third stage of tower added c.2005 and steeple added c.2010. Pitched slate roof to nave and transepts with lean-to slate roofs to side aisles, hipped roof to chancel, broach spire to tower with louvered lucarnes. Alternating courses of red and blue slates to nave and transepts with terracotta ridge tiles punctuated by serrated cresting, stone barges and skew corbels with stone and cast-iron cross finials to gable apexes. Ashlar chimneystack to sacristy with seams and scalloped detail. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked rubble walls with quarry-face finish, dressed stone buttresses, ashlar platbands, and ashlar plinth course. Corbelled ashlar eaves course with wide joints separating stones. Pointed arch window openings throughout with stone tracery and hood mouldings. Large spoked rose window over rows of quatrefoils to pointed arch opening at west end of nave with hood and label stops, archivolt resting on columns with capitals. Crenellated gabled door surround to gabled entrance front with pointed arch door opening comprising engaged marble colonnettes, stone tracery with pointed arch of sandstone and limestone blocks abo

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1865–1875

Where:
Cavan, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.90°N, 6.81°W

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