Saint Joseph's Catholic Church — Ballyduff

Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1872-3; dedicated 1873, on a rectangular plan with single-bay three-stage tower (south-west) on a square plan. Completed, 1912. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers with Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite "Cavetto" consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked rubble stone wall to entrance (south) front with cut-granite diagonal stepped buttresses to corners having cut-granite "slated" coping; tuck pointed coursed or snecked rubble stone walls (remainder) with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Lancet window openings, cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (north), cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (south) front with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over on monolithic label stops framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Pointed-arch window opening to gable with cut-granite Y-mullion, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Interior including vestibule (south); square-headed door opening into nave with replacement glazed timber double doors; full-height interior open into roof with choir gallery (south) below stained glass "South Window" (----), central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, timber stations between stained glass windows, exposed pointed-arch braced scissor truss timber roof construction on cut-granite "Cavetto" corbels with wind braced ceiling, and carpeted cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered, ----, with pointed-arch chancel arch framing cut-veined white marble panelled altar below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (----). Set in landscaped grounds.