Church of St. John the Baptist (RC), Tralee

Heritage Site Icon Church of St. John the Baptist (RC), Tralee Material Source Icon Material Source(s)
County:
Kerry
Townland:
Tralee
Coordinates:
52.2681, -9.7029
Date:
1861-1870
Architects:
Ashlin, George Coppinger (DIA); McCarthy, James Joseph (DIA)
Builders:
Stoneworkers:
Styles:
Gothic Revival

Notes:

Exterior squared and pitched walls of punched Tonevane Sandstone; quoins, windows, doors of tooled Mississippian grey stylolytic limestone. Nave columns (circular cross-section) in tooled grey limestone from Lixnaw. Modern tabernacle and font of Wicklow granite and Italian marble columns, chancel arches supported on colonettes of Cork Red and Connemara Marble.

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