Saint Joseph's Church (Monaghan (Muineachán))

 Gothic revival (architecture), listed building / architectural heritage, 1900_construction, Roman Catholic church

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Freestanding gable-fronted Gothic Revival stone-built Roman Catholic church, built 1891-1900, by P. Nolan of Monaghan to designs by William Hague Jr. and John Doran. Faces west and comprises five-bay nave, with three-stage tower attached to south elevation, latter set back from gable-front, and with two-bay two-storey sacristy abutting rear bay of same elevation. Pitched slate roofs throughout, saddleback to tower, with roll-top blue/black clay ridge tiles, corbelled out stone verges and cross finials to nave apexes, moulded cast-iron gutters on moulded stone eaves corbel. Rock-faced coursed sandstone walling, splayed plinth, buttresses with dressed quoins and offsetting between bays, angled buttresses to west gable corners rising to pyramidal pinnacles on pierced bases with columnar pinnacles to corners, wrought-iron finials to each cap. Pointed-arch entrances to east and west sides of tower, having splayed and dressed surrounds. Three-light trefoil-headed diagonally glazed windows to nave sides with flush dressed surrounds and splayed sills, and having varying sill levels, and with dressed voussoirs. Pointed-arch four-light window to gable-front with transom and block-ended ogee-headed hood-moulding, loop vents to apex. Tripartite windows to lower part of gable-front and to front bay of each side elevation of nave, and pointed-arch five-light east window. Tower has two lancets with hood-mouldings to gables, and round window to front of top stage with cross pattern and having tracery to each facet and stop-ended ogee-profile hood-moulding.