Survey Data
Reg No
30409106
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1960 - 1965
Coordinates
100552, 221703
Date Recorded
23/09/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic Church, built 1964, having nave, flat-roofed porch to gable-front, side chapels to long side elevations, and sacristy to east. Pitched copper alloy roof with catslide to sacristy, concrete roofs to side chapels and porch with concrete coping, copper alloy cross finial to gable-front and copper alloy rainwater goods. Walls of brick to lower half and rendered above, chapels and porch being of brick and latter having stone front. Render plat band. Stone date-plaque to east elevation. Square-headed ribbon windows to nave having concrete sills and lead-lined stained-glass windows. Sacristy has group of five square timber casement windows. Triangular-headed tripartite window opening to gable-front with concrete sill and having timber louver above. Square-headed door openings with granite steps and timber battened. Green marble stoups to interior of porch, low pitched ceiling to nave, limestone baptismal font to north end of nave with decorative wrought-iron railing. Statues to north corners of nave with metal effigy. Marble altar and reredos with timber pews. Five-bay single-storey presbytery to south-east of church. Rubble stone boundary walls and piers with rusticated stone and concrete coping.
Appraisal
Designed by Daniel Kennedy, this building is a good and relatively intact example of a mid-twentieth-century Catholic church. Copper alloy sheeting has been used for the roof and, unusually, for the rainwater goods. The ribbon windows are typical of the era, as is the spartan but very well lit and airy interior, with some of the well detailed fittings designed by Brother Benedict Tutty.