Survey Data
Reg No
41402301
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Previous Name
Trinity Catholic Church
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1840 - 1845
Coordinates
261300, 318147
Date Recorded
17/04/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, dated 1841, having five-bay nave, sacristy to north elevation and flat-roofed extension to east elevation. Pitched slate roof with limestone cross finials and copings. Rendered walls with rendered quoins and plinth and having rendered plaque to south elevation under label-moulding. Pointed-arch window openings with fifteen-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows with intersecting timber tracery to heads, under render hood-moulding with painted stone sills. Pointed arch door opening with cut limestone hood-moulding, painted stone surround, intersecting timber tracery to fanlight, and timber panelled door. Single-cell interior with altar to north end and carved timber gallery to entrance end. Half-glazed timber internal porch under gallery. Painted plastered ceilings and walls, with plaster ceiling roses. Painted plaster reredos to altar, with canopy supported on Ionic pilasters with plinths, with painting of Crucifixion as backdrop. Marble altar furniture. Square-headed door openings with timber panelled doors leading to sacristy, and pointed-arch window openings with sloped sills. Graveyard around church, with rendered wall to road boundary having decorative metal double-leaf gate and railings.
Appraisal
This is a notably intact Catholic church. Its simple single-cell form is enlivened by the intersecting timber tracery detail to windows and door openings, while the retention of original materials and architectural details such as the cross finials, render moulding and plaque have additional appeal. The interior is Spartan but has a notable Ionic architectural set-piece to the altar end and a fine painting of the Crucifixion. The setting is complemented by the gates and railings.