Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church

Church/chapel in Cavan, Ireland, dating from 1795–1800

Freestanding Gothic Revival barn-style Roman Catholic church, built 1796, with six-bay nave having symmetrically placed entrances in second and fifth bays, with high-level windows to galleries in end gables. Gabled sacristy addition to centre bay to rear. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, barge stones to gables, stepped pedestal to apex of west gable surmounted by crucifix, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth-rendered walls with bevelled plinth. Pointed arch twin-light multiple-pane timber tracery windows to front elevation with central mullion and decorative heads in splayed surrounds with hoods mouldings returned horizontally at stops. Multiple-pane timber sash windows with switch-line tracery heads to rear elevation in plain reveals with stone sills. Square-headed six-over-six timber sash windows to gables and sacristy. All windows now boarded up. Pointed arch door openings with sheeted timber doors having decorative heads matching windows. Timber sheeted door to sacristy. Interior arranged with raised altar at centre of long side facing pews in centre bays between entrance doors, galleries to either end with pews beneath. Flat plaster ceiling sloped at eaves with timber ceiling vents having trefoil and quatrefoil apertures, timber tie-beams either side of altar. Timber panelled door to sacristy and timber panelled lobbies to entrances with double-leaf

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1795–1800

Where:
Cavan, Ireland

Coordinates:
54.11°N, 7.68°W

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