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Catholic Church of Our Lady and Saint Joseph — Prosperous

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Catholic Church of Our Lady and Saint Joseph — Prosperous
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Detached five-bay single- and two-storey Gothic Revival Catholic church, dated 1869, comprising four-bay double-height nave with four-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to north-west and to south-east and single-bay double-height lower chancel to north-east. Extended, 1985, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed sacristy projection to north-east with single-bay single-storey lean-to bay added to side aisle to south-east. Gable-ended roofs with slate (lean-to to side aisles). Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cross finials to apexes. Cast-iron rainwater goods on corbelled eaves. Flat-roof to sacristy projection. Materials not visible. Squared and snecked cut-limestone walls. Cut-limestone dressings including buttresses. Cut-stone date stone/plaque. Pointed-arch window openings. Cut-stone voussoirs. Cut-limestone traceried windows (three light over entrance bay to south-west; four light to chancel to north-east). Trefoil windows to clere-storey. Fixed-pane windows to all openings. Pointed-arch door opening. Cut-limestone surround with hood moulding over. Timber panelled double doors. Full-height interior open into roof. Stained glass windows. Set back from road in own grounds on a corner site. Tarmacadam grounds to site. Rubble stone boundary wall to boundary. Freestanding belfry, dated 1927, to north-east comprising four cut-stone piers with bell over.

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