All Saints' Catholic Church — TEMPLETOWN

Detached six-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1896-8; dated 1898; opened 1899, on a rectangular plan comprising six-bay double-height nave opening into six-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. "Restored", 1998. Pitched slate roof; lean-to slate roofs (side aisles), perforated crested clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite gabled corbel kneelers including lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gable to entrance (west) front on cut-granite gabled corbel kneelers with cruciform-detailed cut-granite buttressed gabled bellcote to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite thumbnail beaded corbels retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed tuck pointed snecked "Old Red Sandstone" walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Quatrefoil window openings (clerestorey) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Trefoil-headed lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement (side aisles) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening (east) with cut-granite millions, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front, cut-granite block-and-start surround having bull nose-detailed reveals with hood moulding framing timber boarded double doors. Pointed-arch window opening (gable) with cut-granite mullions, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Interior including vestibule (west) with diagonal timber boarded walls, and timber boarded ceiling in timber frame; pointed-arch door opening into nave with timber panelled double doors; full-height interior open into roof "restored", 1998, with cruciform-perforated timber panelled choir gallery (west) on an engaged half-octagonal plan, encaustic tiled central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, pointed-arch arcades on cut-granite drum pillars, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, ----, with octafoil-detailed cut-veined white marble high altar below stained glass "East Window" (----), stepped daises to side altars retaining carved timber railings with hexafoil-detailed cut-veined white marble altars below stained glass windows (----), exposed pointed-arch braced collared timber roof construction on "Cavetto"-detailed thumbnail beaded corbels with window braced rafters to stencilled ceiling on carved timber cornice, timber panelled confessional boxes (side aisles), timber boarded wainscoting with carved timber dado rail, Gothic-style timber stations between "cathedral glass" windows, and exposed strutted timber roof constructions on "Cavetto"-detailed thumbnail beaded corbels with wind braced rafters to ceilings on carved timber cornices. Set in relandscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having roll moulded gabled capping supporting replacement mild steel double gates.