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Saint Michael's Catholic Church — Danesfort

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Saint Michael's Catholic Church — Danesfort
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Detached four-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, built 1812, on a cruciform plan comprising two-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south, single-bay double-height shallow chancel to east having two-bay single-storey sacristy to east, and single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to west. Extensively renovated, post-1965, with interior remodelled. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan (pitched to sacristy) with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping to gables having unpainted roughcast bellcote to apex to south (with round-headed aperture having cast-iron bell), and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Painted roughcast walls with rendered quoins to corners, and rendered coping to parapet to porch (rising to centre as gablet) having cross finial to gablet. Pointed-arch window openings with rendered sills, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening with timber panelled double doors. Full-height interior remodelled, post-1965, retaining Gothic-style altar furniture to crossing. Set back from line of road in own grounds.

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