Saint Michael's Catholic Church — Crosspatrick

Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1832. Extensively renovated, post-1965. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered bargeboards to gables, and iron rainwater goods on replacement timber eaves, post-1965. Painted rendered wall to front (north-east) elevation with rendered stepped buttresses, and painted replacement roughcast walls, post-1965, to remainder. Pointed-arch window openings with rendered sills, Y-mullions to front (north-east) elevation over entrance bay forming tripartite pointed-arch arrangement, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door openings with replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors, post-1965, having overpanels. Full-height interior with glazed timber panelled internal porch, timber pews, timber panelled stepped gallery to first floor to north-east on clustered colonette pillars having timber panelled pews, Gothic-style reredos to chancel having fluted Corinthian columns on octagonal stepped pedestals supporting pointed-arch archivolts, and segmental barrel-vaulted diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled coffered ceiling. Set back from road in own grounds. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1832-present. (iii) Freestanding single-bay two-stage belfry, pre-1832, to west on a square plan probably originally bell tower of earlier church. Random rubble limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins to corners, square-headed slit-style apertures to first stage, cut-limestone stringcourse over, quatrefoil apertures to second stage, cut-stone stringcourse supporting battlemented parapet having cut-stone coping, and wrought iron railings surrounding cast-iron bell incorporating decorative bracket.