Saint Saviour's Church
Church/chapel in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1855–1860
Freestanding gable-fronted limestone Roman Catholic basilica-style church, built c.1856, having eight-bay nave, canted apse with single-bay side walls, side aisles and quadruple side chapels. Pitched roof to nave and chapels and lean-to roofs to side aisles, slated throughout. Replacement UPVC gutters, hoppers and downpipes. Ashlar limestone walls with Portland stone dressings, and three-tier entrance gable over chamfered limestone plinth course to base. Stepped buttresses with dressed quoins flanking nave and apse window openings, having gabled pinnacles with crocketed finials. Blind nine-bay pointed-arch gallery between main entrance door on lower register and rose window to upper register has plinths to each bay without statues. Flat pilasters between clerestory windows to nave. West elevation side aisles have pointed-arch window openings with moulded surrounds encasing curvilinear tracery windows with stained-glass lights. Rose window to front gable set within pointed-arch opening. Ocular rose windows to west side of chapels. Pointed-arch window openings with moulded surrounds to remaining chapel openings having reticulated limestone tracery windows. Three tall pointed-arch window openings with curvilinear tracery windows encasing figurative stained-glass lights to polygonal apse (rear elevation). Between windows are timber brackets supporting timber painted panelled ceilin
- Type:
- Church/chapel
- Period:
- 1855–1860
- Where:
- Dublin, Ireland
- Coordinates:
- 53.35°N, 6.27°W
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