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Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes

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Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes
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Detached cruciform plan gable-fronted Catholic church, built c.1975, having three-bay entrance elevation with belfry, six-bay nave, sacristy and domed semi-circular apse. Pitched slate roofs with metal-clad roof to apse, and pebble-dashed chimneystack. Pebble-dashed and sandstone cladding to walls. Paired stained-glass lancet windows and with gabled dormer windows to entrance block. Round-arch doorways with timber battened double-leaf doors. Pointed-arch concrete ribs to roof. Sandstone walls and metal gates to site boundary.
This church contains traditional elements, such as transepts, belfry, apse and nave, but all are articulated in a frankly Modernist manner, using modern materials and the clarity of line and simplicity of form typical of twentieth-century architecture. In the interior, the concrete ribs create a pleasing rhythm to the eye while paying homage to the pointed arch of earlier church architecture. The church closes the streetscape, being visible from the far end of the village.

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