Saint Patrick's Church (Monaghan)

Church/chapel in Monaghan, Ireland, dating from 1830–1840

Freestanding Gothic Revival stone-built Church of Ireland church, built 1831–6 to designs by diocesan architect William Farrell of Dublin. Cruciform plan comprising six-bay nave, diminished single-bay narthex to west, chancel to east having single-bay vestries to each internal angle, and three-stage tower with spire. Pitched slate roof, roll-top blue/black ridge tiles, stone verges and octagonal-plan chimneystack to east nave gable, crenellated parapet to nave and vestries, continued to nave west gable, chancel gable, and narthex as carved quatrefoils with pierced spandrels, blind to gable inclination. Concealed gutters with exposed cast-iron hopper head and downpipe. Needle spire on octagonal plan atop tower, four stages of open lucarnes (that to top being blind), slight offsetting to base, no parapet. Ashlar sandstone walling over torus-moulded battered plinth (containing chamfered wrought-iron grilled square vents) with moulded string course at parapet base interrupted by three-stage strip buttresses recessed to each stage by gablet rising to terminate in skewed gabled needle pinnacles, diagonal buttresses all corners. Tower has moulded string courses between stages, that above second stage angled with carved crocket finial over clock faces (inserted 1902) to south and west elevations, timber blocked to north elevation, first stage south elevation has lugged blank shield sup

Type:
Church/chapel

Period:
1830–1840

Where:
Monaghan, Ireland

Coordinates:
54.25°N, 6.97°W

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