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Saint Lachtain's Church (Freshford) — New Bridge Street

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Saint Lachtain's Church (Freshford) — New Bridge Street
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Attached four-bay single-storey building, c.1825, possibly incorporating fabric of medieval abbey, c.750, on site. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls with rubble stone buttress piers to rear (east) elevation having rendered coping. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and timber casement windows having lattice glazing (plain glazing to rear (east) elevation; one having wrought iron bars). Square-headed door openings with two cut-limestone steps supporting cut-limestone padstones, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Pointed-arch door opening to rear (east) elevation between buttress piers with dressed rubble limestone voussoirs, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Full-height interior open into roof with tongue-and-groove timber panelled screen, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Lachtain's Church.

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