Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB15/02/063

Address :
St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church Eagralougher Road Loughgall Co Armagh

Townland:
Eagralougher

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Church

Former Use
Church

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
199/3

IG Ref:
H9007 5307

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Owner Category

Church - RC

Exterior Description And Setting

A church in a Romanesque-Revival style comprising a nave and semi-circular chancel, with square tower and later gabled porch. Main entrance faces north-west. Roofs slated. Walls rendered roughcast with limestone rubble quoins and dressings including flat pilaster-buttresses to main entrance front. Later modern entrance porch built over original main entrance. Tower at north-west corner is square, 3-stage, with a stone-built belfry storey which has chamfered corners stopped at the base by spherical mouldings; steep pyramidal roof oversailing on brackets. Datestone on north side above ground floor 3-light window. Front porch flanked each side on main nave gable by small recessed cut stone stoups set in a circular niche. SETTING: The building stands in a rural area, facing the public road, but set back from it within its own grounds. Grounds laid with tarmac. Front boundary formed by ornamented iron gates set between cast iron piers flanked by similar ornamental iron railings which extend to modern plain railings.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Built in 1912 according to the datestone. References – Primary Sources 1. Datestone on building. 2. OS Map 1952, Co Armagh 8.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is an early 20th century church which has some interesting details but has been spoiled by a later porch.

General Comments

Date of Survey

31 December 2004