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Saint Mary's Catholic Church — Broadford

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Saint Mary's Catholic Church — Broadford
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Detached six-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1862-5, retaining early aspect comprising five-bay double-height nave with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to north and single-bay double-height lower chancel to east having single-bay single-storey gabled sacristy projection to south-east. Gable-ended roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables with finials to apexes. Ogee-profile cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves course. Coursed cut-stone walls. Cut-stone dressings including stepped intermediary buttresses to north and to south. Paired lancet-arch window openings to nave. Cut-stone chamfered sills and surrounds. Fixed-pane windows (some with stained glass panels). Traceried (five-light) window to chancel in pointed-arch frame having cut-stone chamfered surround. Pointed-arch windows with profiled openings to arch. Fixed-pane stained glass windows. Traceried (five-light) window to entrance bay to west in pointed-arch frame having cut-stone surround. Lancet-arch openings. Fixed-pane windows. Square-headed door opening in cut-stone tripartite doorcase comprising series of three pointed-arches on cut-stone colonettes having moulded necking with recessed arches over. Cut-stone shouldered surround to door opening. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Full-height interior open into roof. Carved timber pews. Carved Gothic-style timber confessionals. Timber panelled gallery to first floor to west on posts. Open timber roof construction. Lancet-arch chancel arch. Set back from road in own grounds. Lawns and tarmacadam forecourt to front.

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