NIAH Building #30404508
, BALLYMURRY Galway

Description:
Freestanding T-plan Roman Catholic church, built c.1830, having two-bay nave, single-bay transepts, slightly projecting chancel area, four-stage bell tower to west, and twentieth-century sacristy addition to east. Pitched concrete tiled roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and replacement uPVC fascia. Coursed squared rubble limestone walls with dressed quoins, except for gables of transepts, east wall and sacristy, which are rendered. Rendered plinth. Rendered walls, plinth and string courses to bell tower, with dressed limestone parapet having carved pinnacles. Pointed-arch window openings with tooled surrounds to nave and transepts, with raised render reveals to transept gables, all having timber Y-tracery stained-glass windows and limestone sills. Pointed-arch doorway to north transept gable with dressed limestone and render surrounds, with timber sheeted double-leaf door. Tower has pointed-arch timber louvered windows to top stage and west face of second stage, and blind oculus windows to front and side elevations of third stage. Interior has plastered barrel-vaulted ceiling with ornate marble reredos set within round-arch recess with moulded imposts, and timber balcony over entrance reached by metal spiral stairs. Set in own ground with stone piers and chain to north and car-park to south.
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