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Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity — Chapel Lane

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Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity — Chapel Lane
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Detached four-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1813, on a cruciform plan comprising two-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to east and to west, and single-bay double-height chancel to north having single-bay single-storey lean-to sacristy to north-east. Renovated, 1930, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porches added to front (south) elevation and to front (south) elevations of transepts. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan (lean-to to sacristy) with clay ridge tiles, granite ashlar buttressed gabled bellcote to gable to south (with round-headed aperture having bronze bell, and cut-granite coping to gable having cross finial to apex), and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat roofs to porches not visible behind parapets. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to corners, and rendered coping to parapets to porches extending into gables having cross finials to apexes. Round-headed window openings with rendered sills, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings to porch (some grouped in tripartite arrangement) with concrete sills, and fixed-pane fittings having diamond-leaded or lattice panels. Segmental-headed door opening to porch with square-headed door openings to porches to transepts having tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Full-height interior open into roof with timber panelled confessional boxes having engaged colonettes supporting profiled friezes, balustraded galleries to first floor on cast-iron pillars, and exposed timber roof construction having tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling. Set back from road in own grounds with unpainted roughcast boundary wall to perimeter of site over concrete block construction having unpainted cement rendered piers, wrought iron gates and double gates. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1813-present. (iii) Nuns' graveyard to site with various cast-iron markers, post-1858-present.

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