Saint Patrick's Catholic College

Monastery, school in Cavan, Ireland, dating from 1865–1875

Detached Gothic Revival H-plan twenty-three-bay three-storey over basement former seminary college, built c.1870, having central gabled breakfront, square-plan four-storey towers at intersection of gable-fronted three-storey advanced end bays of flanking wings. Eight-bay east wing and ten-bay west wing enclosing rear courtyard with symmetrically placed corbelled gablets surmounted by chimneystack. Symmetrical rear elevation with central projecting bay. Four-bay church with full-height bowed apse attached to end of east block having five-bay lean-to aisle with gabled sacristy set at right angle on courtyard side. Seventeen-bay three-storey extension of c.1940 to rear of west block. Steeply pitched slate roof with eaves supported by moulded stone corbels, tall red brick chimneystacks with string courses and cornice details regularly spaced along ridge, circular- and square-profile cast-iron rainwater goods. Pyramidal slate roofs to towers with cornices and stepped parapets. Gables of central and terminating bay with cut stone fractables and surmounted by finials. Squared sandstone walls with chamfered limestone plinth and limestone courses above sills and beneath arches. Central gabled breakfront with clock to gable apex over stepped moulded course over triple slit openings and heraldic angel to kneelers. Two-storey red-brick arched recess having tripartite arrangement of pointed

Type:
Monastery, school

Period:
1865–1875

Where:
Cavan, Ireland

Coordinates:
54.01°N, 7.35°W

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