Survey Data
Reg No
22115004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Outbuilding
Date
1885 - 1890
Coordinates
222195, 123015
Date Recorded
04/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached south-facing gable-fronted Gothic Revival former mortuary chapel, one of pair of such chapels in cemetery, built 1886, now in use as outbuilding, with polygonal apse to north end and single-bay single-storey vestry projection to east. Pitched slate roof with decorative banding, rounded to north, with terracotta ridge crestings, limestone coping, timber eaves course, limestone and cast-iron crosses to front and rear and having decorative timber bargeboards and projecting roughly-dressed and cut limestone and sandstone chimneystack to vestry. Snecked sandstone walls with cut limestone and sandstone plinth, having cut limestone quoins and platbands to gable-front. Chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds to openings. Pointed arch windows, two-light to apse, triple-lancet with alternating cut limestone and sandstone voussoirs to front elevation and square-headed two-light to vestry, all having coloured lattice and quarry glass cast-iron windows. Pointed arch entrance opening with timber battened double doors with ornate strap hinges and limestone steps, flanked by two pointed arch side-light windows, all under continuous limestone hood moulding and having alternating cut limestone and sandstone voussoirs.
Appraisal
This modest- sized chapel is a good example of the English Gothic Revival style typical of the late nineteenth century in Ireland. It forms part of a cemetery complex with a Roman Catholic chapel and a sexton's house and occupies a notable raised site along the main Waterford road into Clonmel. It exemplifies fine stonework and decoration in the hood moulding to the front elevation, as well as artistic elements such as coloured glass windows, cast-iron cross and terracotta ridge crestings. It is very similar in style and decoration to the chapel at Saint Luke's Hospital on the west side of Clonmel.