Survey Data
Reg No
30914001
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1850 - 1860
Coordinates
180129, 328099
Date Recorded
10/07/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached single-cell Roman Catholic church, built in 1859, with entrance tower to west and single-storey chancel to east. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked limestone walls with eaves course, diagonal buttresses and date plaque to front wall. Pointed-arched window openings to nave with tooled limestone surrounds, hood mouldings and decorative timber tracery. Pointed-arched window openings to east and west ends have masks to dripstops. Pointed-arch door opening with timber sheet door to projecting tower with tooled limestone chamfered surround and hood moulding flanked by pointed-arched door openings in nave. Cast-iron vehicular and pedestrian gates flanked by ashlar gates piers to front of site. Church located on elevated site in a rural setting.
Appraisal
Located on an elevated site in a rural setting with the rolling hills of Leitrim as a backdrop to its impressive tower, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church is a dominant feature in the landscape. Constructed in 1859, the church expresses simplicity of design with the windows being one of the only decorative elements adorning the structure. It forms a group of structures with the presbytery, located to the south.