Survey Data
Reg No
22902017
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1910 - 1915
Coordinates
200900, 103307
Date Recorded
08/10/2003
Date Updated
--/--/--
Description
Detached eight-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1913; opened 1913, on a rectangular plan comprising seven-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (south) with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to entrance (north) front. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs, crested clay ridge tiles with rendered buttressed gabled bellcote to apex (south), concrete coping to gable to entrance (north) front on ogee kneelers with Celtic Cross finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on "Cavetto" consoles retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls with rendered buttresses including rendered clasping buttresses to corners having rendered coping. Lancet window openings with chamfered flush sills, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings. Lancet "Trinity Window" (south) with chamfered flush sill, and rendered "bas-relief" surround framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. "Rose Window" to entrance (north) front with rendered surround framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Paired lancet window openings (porch) with chamfered flush sill, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Pointed-arch opposing door openings ("cheeks") with concealed dressings framing timber boarded double doors having overlights. Interior including vestibule (north); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight; full-height interior open into roof with choir gallery (north) below "Rose Window" (----), "terrazzo" central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, Gothic-style timber stations, exposed pointed-arch braced collared timber roof construction on ogee corbels with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing stepped dais to sanctuary (south) reordered, ----, with replacement altar table below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (----). Set in landscaped grounds.
Appraisal
A church representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century ecclesiastical heritage of County Waterford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form, aligned along a liturgically-incorrect axis; the slender profile of the openings underpinning a stolid "medieval" Gothic theme with the chancel defined by an elegant "Trinity Window"; and the bellcote embellishing the roofline as a picturesque eye-catcher in the landscape. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior reordered (----) in accordance with the liturgical reforms sanctioned by the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (1962-5) where contemporary joinery; and the Prendergast Memorial "Trinity Window" supplied by Franz Mayer and Company (established 1847) of Munich and London, all highlight the artistic potential of the composition: meanwhile, an exposed timber roof construction pinpoints the engineering or technical dexterity of a church making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.