St Anne's Roman Catholic Church (Bailieborough (Coill an Chollaigh))

 Gothic revival (architecture), listed building / architectural heritage, 1830s construction, Roman Catholic church

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Freestanding Gothic Revival cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, built 1838, having two-bay nave, three-stage tower of 1856 to front gable, single-bay chancel, baptistry, and flat roofed sacristy of 1868, and eight-bay flat-roofed side aisles with protruding confessionals added in 1962 extending forward with porches to sides of tower. Pitched copper roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, cut-stone barge copings to shrine on corbelled kneelers, parapets to side aisle and sacristy with chimneystack to west. Stepped crenellations to tower with blunted four-sided copper roof and decorative crucifix finial. Roughcast rendered walls to nave and tower over raised plinth course, dressed block-and-start quoins to main cruciform and shrine. Second stage of tower having pointed arch timber louvred belfry opening with stone surround and hood moulding, middle stage having square-headed window openings with Tudor hoods and stone surround, ground stage with tall lancet having stained glass, painted stone surround and hood moulding. Stages divided by stone string course. Pointed arch windows with stone surround and sill to nave and transepts. High-level pointed arch lancets to east gable flanking tower with hood mouldings on string course.