Survey Data

Reg No

31811018


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic, Social, Technical


Original Use

Church/chapel


In Use As

Church/chapel


Date

1855 - 1865


Coordinates

193177, 280973


Date Recorded

04/08/2003


Date Updated

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Description

Detached Roman Catholic Church, built in 1860, with fifteen-bay nave, seven-bay side aisles, projecting gable-fronted three-stage entrance tower to façade and modern sacristy to rear. Pitched slate roofs to nave and tower with lean-to roofs to side aisles. Ashlar limestone façade and roughcast rendered side and rear elevations. Limestone pilasters separating window openings of side aisles and forming angles of façade. Various window openings including rose window to chancel, pointed-arched openings to nave and side aisles with tooled stone surrounds and stained glass windows, traceried three-light windows with hood mouldings and oculi to façade of side aisles and ogee-headed lancet windows to tower. Doorways in façade of tower and side aisles, chamfered pointed-arched door openings with hood mouldings, replacement doors and stained glass overlights. Church interior with tiled porch, limestone columns to side aisles, and organ gallery to east end. Timber open truss roof with coffered ceiling to sanctuary with east end supported on marble colonettes. Marble reredos and modern limestone altar to nave and marble reredos to each side aisle also. Outbuilding to south with hipped slate roof, roughcast rendered-walls and pointed-arched windows. Parochial house to west. Church fronts directly onto Elphin Street.

Appraisal

This austere Roman Catholic Church was built in 1860 on the site of an earlier structure and was extensively modified in 1959/60. The imposing structure, with its finely-tooled façade and projecting entrance tower, is given an artistic touch by its differing window style, which help to embellish it. There is a stark contrast between the interior and exterior, the interior being spacious and bright with colonnaded nave and the beautiful rose window shining over the altar.