Survey Data
Reg No
14301012
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1895 - 1905
Coordinates
278486, 289634
Date Recorded
03/05/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached gable-fronted Gothic Revival church, built 1898. Six-bay side elevations to nave with porch and sacristy projections. Rock faced limestone walls with corner buttresses, ashlar plinth course, and carved eaves dentils. Lancet windows with ashlar limestone surrounds and sills. Pointed arch door opening with pair of timber doors. Pitched slate roof with ashlar limestone chimneystacks and bellcote. Twentieth-century cemetery to west. Limestone gate piers with cast-iron railings and gate. Bridge to site.
Appraisal
Kilmainham village church is of apparent architectural design and detail. The ashlar dressings and rock-faced limestone walls create interesting textural variations. The setting is enhanced by the boundary walls with stone gate piers and cast-iron gates. The cemetery, parochial house and grotto form an interesting group with the church grounds.