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Catholic Church of the Holy Cross — Grange

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Catholic Church of the Holy Cross — Grange
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Detached five-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1826, on a rectangular plan; single-bay three-stage tower (west) on a square plan. "Improved", 1909, producing present composition. Renovated, ----, with interior reordered. Replacement pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, and cast aluminium rainwater goods on box eaves. Repointed tooled cut-limestone wall (east) on tooled cut-limestone plinth with abbreviated margined tooled cut-limestone clasping stepped buttresses to corners having lichen-spotted cut-limestone "slated" coping; rendered, ruled and lined walls (remainder) with rendered quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings on ogee label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass quatrefoils. Lancet window openings (west) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings on ogee label stops framing nine-over-nine timber sash windows without horns having interlocking Y-tracery glazing bars. Pointed-arch door opening (east) with poured concrete ramp, margined tooled cut-limestone doorcase having colonette-detailed reveals with hood moulding on foliate label stops framing timber panelled double doors. Pointed-arch window opening (gable) with cut-limestone interlocking Y-mullions, margined tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on foliate label stops framing fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Full-height interior reordered, ----. Set in landscaped grounds with limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed shallow pyramidal capping supporting crocketed cast-iron double gates.

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