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St. Patrick's Church, Straffan

Coordinates: 53°18′41″N 6°36′38″W / 53.311423°N 6.610659°W / 53.311423; -6.610659
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St. Patrick's Church
Teampall Phádraig
St. Patrick's Church is located in County Kildare
St. Patrick's Church
St. Patrick's Church
53°18′41″N 6°36′38″W / 53.311423°N 6.610659°W / 53.311423; -6.610659
LocationStraffan, County Kildare
CountryIreland
DenominationChurch of Ireland
Previous denominationPre-Reformation Catholic
History
Foundedearly 13th century
DedicationSaint Patrick
Architecture
Functional statusruined
Closed1838
Specifications
Length21.5 m (71 ft)
Width6.3 m (21 ft)
Number of floors4
Materialsstone
Administration
DioceseDublin and Glendalough

Saint Patrick's Church, also called Old Straffan Church, is a ruined medieval church in Straffan, Ireland.[1][2][3]

Location

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St. Patrick's Church is located in the centre of Straffan village, 760 m (½ mile) north of the River Liffey.

History

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St. Patrick’s Church, Straffan was built in the early 13th century. It is recorded that St Patrick's was incorporated into the Hospital of Saint John outside Newgate, Dublin c. 1250 which would suggest its construction at an earlier time.[citation needed]

The vicarage was suppressed in 1397 and was united with Saint John’s Hospital. In 1531 Archbishop John Alen restored the vicarage.[citation needed]

The church may have served as a safe house for persecuted clergy.[citation needed] The nave was ruined by 1630.[3]

The church was replaced by the modern church in 1838.[4]

The church is located within a modern graveyard, accessible by a lychgate, built c. 1920.[5]

Building

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Arched doorway in the east wall

St. Patrick's Church is 100 ft (30 m) long, with a fortified tower house of four storeys attached to its west end, with a bell-cote on top. The tower has a stair-turret in the southwest and has had later buttresses added to the north and south.[3]

The entrance door is to the south with a modern granite arch; otherwise the church is of rubble with limestone dressings. There are three cusped, ogee-headed and chamfered single-light windows — two in the south and one in the north. There are roughly-dressed quoins on the east wall.[3]

Most of the northern wall has fallen.[6] A 19th-century account mentions a small stone oratory to the south, which has since been demolished.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ "Old Straffan Church Co Kildare".
  2. ^ Carlisle, Nicholas (1 January 1810). "A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland: Exhibiting the Names of the Several Cities, Towns, Parishes, and Villages ... Collected from the Most Authentic Documents, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order. Being a Continuation of the Topography of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland". W. Miller – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b c d e Tierney, Andrew (2019). The Buildings of Ireland: Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly. Yale University Press. p. 602. ISBN 9780300232042.
  4. ^ "church of ireland straffan - Google Search".
  5. ^ "Additional Images: Buildings of Ireland: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage".
  6. ^ "Patrick Comerford".