Chapel at, Mount Saint Columb, Rostrevor Road, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3RT

This building has been demolished since this record was made. Small private chapel situated at the SW end of a large derelict nursing home complex to the rear of the original house (HB16/012/006A). Roof is aligned NW-SE and has concrete pantiles. Its front (SE) facing gable has a pitched coping and shouldered kneelers. Cross finial. Walls are cement dashed and have smooth chamfered basecourse. Thin two stage buttresses rise up left and right sides. At ground floor centre there is a shallow porch (see later). Plaque on front wall to left of porch states, ‘THIS FOUNDATION STONE WAS LAID/ ON/ 22ND NOVEMBER 1959/ BY/ MOST REVEREND EUGENE O’DOHERTY D.D/ BISHOP OF DROMORE/ CONTRACTOR P.CARVILL & SONS ARCHITECTS ROBERT SHARP & SONS’. Over porch, filling front gable, is a large Gothic window with three cusp headed lancets inset. All have rectangular leaded quarries and there is a common hood mould. Gable apex has small linear ventilator recesses. Single storey porch is flat roofed (concealed behind a parapet) and has walls as main block. Its front (SE) wall has a Gothic headed doorway with smooth architrave and hood mould. It contains a pair of t+g sheeted doors with strap hinges. Its cheeks each have three small rectangular windows (in a common opening) with dressed concrete frames and rectangular quarry glazing. The left (SW) elevation has four Gothic headed windows with moulded architraves and hood moulds. All have rectangular leaded quarries. The rear (NW) gable is dashed and blank. Its central portion advances (accommodating the sanctuary internally) and is blank also. The right (NE) elevation is abutted to left by the derelict nursing home complex (of no interest). The remaining portion to right of centre has two windows (as those to left elevation) and at extreme right a small single storey sacristy abuts. Sanctuary is rectangular and aligned NE-SW. It has a flat roof and is detailed as the front porch. Its rear (NW) facing wall has four small leaded windows in a common opening. Its NE cheek has three similar windows.