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Saint Muntchan's Catholic Church — Gattabaun

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Saint Muntchan's Catholic Church — Gattabaun
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Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1840. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables having rendered gabled bellcote to apex to east (with round-headed aperture having cast-iron bell, and rendered coping having cross finial to apex), cross finial to apex to west, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted rendered wall to entrance (east) front with round-headed recessed stoup, and painted roughcast walls to remainder. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-stone sills, block-and-start surrounds (no surround to entrance (east) front) having hood moulding over, and eight-over-eight timber sash windows having traceried overlights (fixed-pane fitting to entrance (east) front having leaded stained glass panel). Paired pointed elliptical-headed door openings with painted block-and-start surrounds having hood mouldings over, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overpanels. Interior with glazed timber panelled internal porch having decorative clay-tiled floor, timber pews, timber wainscoting, timber panelled gallery to first floor to east on cast-iron pillars, and decorative plasterwork ceiling roses. Set back from road in own grounds.

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