Survey Data
Reg No
20906506
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
184856, 79998
Date Recorded
06/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built c. 1860. Altar to south end. Single-bay gabled porch to north elevation, single-bay gabled porch to east elevation, recent flat-roofed sacristy extension to south elevation. Pitched slate roofs with pedimented carved limestone bellcote with cross finial and cast-iron bell to north gable. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cross finial to front porch. Snecked limestone and sandstone walls to north elevation with pilaster buttresses and platbands. Roughcast rendered walls to south, east and west elevations. Round-headed window openings with cut limestone sills having leaded, coloured and stained glass windows. Square-headed door opening to east porch with timber panelled double-leaf doors. Square-headed openings to north porch with timber battened door to either side. Retains interior features such as exposed roof timbers and stained glass windows. Priests' graveyard to east of site with carved limestone grave markers and obelisk in inscribed lettering. Roughcast rendered boundary wall with square-profile piers having double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gates and wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Rubble stone boundary wall to west boundary with square-profile piers having holy water stoups and wrought-iron double-leaf gates. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west of site with pitched slate roof, red brick walls and camber-headed door opening with timber battened door. Square-profile rendered piers with wrought-iron pedestrian gate and concrete steps lead to presbytery to rear of church.
Appraisal
Church of evident architectural and artistic merit, with unusual pattern of stonework to front elevation. Cut and carved stonework showing skill care and craftsmanship of nineteenth-century stonemasons. Carefully designed and executed stained glass windows. Making interesting small group with presbytery to rear. Enhanced and contextualised by gravestones grounds and boundary walls and entrances.