Survey Data
Reg No
15309013
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1908 - 1915
Coordinates
242814, 254529
Date Recorded
06/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Attached multi-bay Roman Catholic chapel associated with St. Finian’s College (15309012), built c.1910. Attached to east side of St. Finian’s College by a single-storey flat-roofed wing. Polygonal apse to north end. Pitched natural slate roof with raised cut limestone verge to the south gable end, having a cross final over, and with a projecting eaves course to side elevations supported on cut stone corbels. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-line cement rendered walls over rusticated limestone plinth having clasping buttresses to either end of front façade (south) with cut stone detailing. Cut stone motif to gable and kneeler stones to eaves at gable ends. Round-headed lancets to nave openings having cut stone lintels over. Three graded lancet openings to the south gable having chamfered cut limestone surrounds with miniature colonnettes supporting hoodmouldings over. Three round headed openings to ground floor level at south gable, below lancets. Located to the east of St. Finian’s College in shared mature grounds. Located to the north of Mullingar.
Appraisal
A large-scale early twentieth-century church associated with St. Finian’s College, which retains its early, form, character and fabric. It is built in a Gothic Revival-style, typical of the style prevalent at its date of construction. However, the round-headed openings lend this structure a faint hint of the Hiberno-Romanesque. This building has some high quality carved stone elements with the fine cut stone surround to the three graded lancets in the south gable of particular note. This building was erected sometime after the initial construction of St. Finian’s College (archive photograph). It forms part of an interesting group of associated structures with the St. Finian’s Complex and is an integral element of the architectural heritage of Westmeath.