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

Chapel at Mount Saint Columb, Rostrevor Road, Warrenpoint

This small private chapel was built in 1959 by the Alexian Brothers and has since been demolished. It was the only post-war structure of any quality within the Mount Saint Columb demesne.

The chapel was a single-storey structure with its roof aligned north-west to south-east, finished with concrete pantiles. The south-east facing front gable featured a pitched coping with shouldered kneelers and a cross finial. Walls were cement dashed with smooth chamfered basecourse, and thin two-stage buttresses rose up both left and right sides.

The front elevation centred on a shallow porch. A foundation stone plaque mounted on the front wall to the left of the porch recorded that the stone was laid on 22nd November 1959 by the Most Reverend Eugene O'Doherty, Bishop of Dromore, with P. Carvill and Sons as contractors and Robert Sharp and Sons as architects. Above the porch, filling the front gable, was a large Gothic window comprising three cusped-headed lancets inset with rectangular leaded quarries and a common hood mould. The gable apex contained small linear ventilator recesses.

The single-storey porch had a flat roof concealed behind a parapet. Its front wall had a Gothic-headed doorway with smooth architrave and hood mould, containing a pair of tongued-and-grooved sheeted doors with strap hinges. Each cheek of the porch held three small rectangular windows in a common opening, with dressed concrete frames and rectangular quarry glazing.

The left (south-west) elevation displayed four Gothic-headed windows with moulded architraves and hood moulds, all with rectangular leaded quarries. The rear (north-west) gable was dashed and blank, with its central portion advancing to accommodate the sanctuary internally, also blank.

The right (north-east) elevation was abutted by the adjacent derelict nursing home complex. The remaining portion to the right of centre had two windows matching those of the left elevation, and at the extreme right a small single-storey sacristy abutted the main structure.

The sanctuary was rectangular, aligned north-east to south-west, with a flat roof detailed as the front porch. Its rear (north-west) facing wall held four small leaded windows in a common opening, while its north-east cheek had three similar windows.

Mount Saint Columb house itself was built as the rectory to Clonallan Parish Church around 1728. It was sold to the Alexian Brothers in 1925. In the post-Second World War years, the brothers built the extensive nursing home complex and this chapel. They vacated the property in the 1990s, and the whole demesne was subsequently sold to a property developer. The grounds were being developed for housing, leaving the chapel, nursing home, and main house vacant. This building was demolished in 2000.