Saint Mary's Church (Saint Mary's New Ross)

Detached five-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1813, on a rectangular plan comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east) with pair of single-bay full-height lean-to vestibules to entrance (west) front centred on single-bay three-stage tower on a square plan supporting broach spire. "Improved", 1860, producing present composition. "Restored", 1892. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed coursed rubble stone walls with cut- or hammered granite flush quoins to corners; granite ashlar surface finish (tower) on cut-granite chamfered plinth with "arrow loop"-detailed cut-granite piers to corners supporting trefoil-detailed granite ashlar broach spire on paired cut-granite stringcourses. Lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement with drag edged dragged cut- or hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" in pointed-arch "bas-relief" recess (east) with hammered granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings (west) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Pointed-arch door opening (tower) with benchmark-inscribed cut-granite threshold, and cut-granite surround having chamfered rebated reveals with hood moulding framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overpanel. Square-headed window opening (second stage) with cut-granite sill, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fitting. Lancet openings (bell stage), cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west) on a square plan retaining limestone flagged floor, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; pair of staircase halls on circular plans retaining cut-granite cantilevered spiral staircases with cast-iron balusters supporting carved timber banisters terminating in volutes; square-headed door opening into nave with timber panelled double doors below cut-white marble "Roll of Honour"; full-height interior with timber panelled gallery on a U-shaped plan on ribbed cast-iron colonette pillars centred on grouped cast-iron octagonal pillars supporting timber panelled pipe organ, carpeted central aisle between timber panelled pews, timber panelled wainscoting, wall monuments (ob. 1768; 1943), compartmentalised ceiling in timber frame, Gothic-style timber clerk's desk (1871) with Gothic-style timber panelled pulpit (1871), and pointed-arch chancel arch framing encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel (east) with wrought iron-detailed barley twist balusters supporting polished brass communion railing centred on trefoil-perforated timber altar below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (1911). Set in landscaped grounds on an elevated site with part creeper- or ivy-covered boundary wall to perimeter having rough hewn granite coping.