Survey Data
Reg No
22311012
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
Date
1790 - 1800
Coordinates
172430, 162221
Date Recorded
13/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding cruciform-plan Catholic church, built c.1796, now roofless, with chamfered junction to nave and transepts. Coursed snecked rubble limestone walls to entrance gable topped by dressed stone belfry with cross finial and with rendered rubble limestone walls elsewhere. Dressed stone quoins and copings. Round-headed openings with dressed sandstone voussoirs and brick jambs. Tall window openings to nave partly blocked up. Doorways to front gable and to north walls of transepts. Inscribed foundation stone and holy water fonts set into walls. Set behind rubble limestone boundary wall with cast-iron piers and decorative cast-iron gates.
Appraisal
An historically-significant post-penal era Catholic church, forming a picturesque ruin through its form, materials and location.