Saint Margaret's Catholic Church — Curracloe

Detached five-bay double-height Catholic church, rebuilt 1858-9, on a T-shaped plan comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on chancel to crossing (east) with pair of single-bay single-storey flat-roofed re-entrance porches (west); single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with ridge tiles, granite ashlar buttressed gabled bellcote to apex to entrance (west) front framing embossed cast-bronze bell, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on box eaves retaining cast-iron conical hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows having interlocking Y-tracery glazing bars. Pointed-arch window openings (transepts) with cut-granite sills, timber Y-mullions, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings to crossing (east) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with replacement glazed timber double doors; full-height interior with tessellated glazed terracotta tiled central aisle between timber pews (1880), timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting supporting timber dado rail, quatrefoil-detailed Gothic-style timber stations (1880), stained glass memorial windows (1889) to transepts, pair of stained glass windows (undated) centred on carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary to crossing (east) reordered, ----, with Gothic-style timber altar below Gothic-style timber reredos, and vaulted ceiling centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling roses. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site.