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Saint Patrick's Catholic Cathedral — North Street

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Saint Patrick's Catholic Cathedral — North Street
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Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height gable-fronted Classical style Catholic cathedral, built 1826, having three-bay nave, entrance porch, single-bay transepts, semi-circular apse, bellcote, pedimented gable front and ancillary buildings (east). Hipped and pitched slate roofs with stone chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roof to porch with carved stone parapet and statue. Ashlar stone walls to gable front with double-height pilasters, string course, pediment with cornice, recessed round-headed blind statuaries and recessed camber-headed openings with carved stoups. Regular and randomly coursed rubble stone walls elsewhere with dressed stone quoins. Round-headed openings having timber fixed pane leaded stained glass windows with block-and-start surrounds, copper clad sill courses, impost course and cut stone voussoirs. Camber-headed openings (some blocked) to transepts having fixed timber framed windows with leaded stained glass. Round and square-headed openings to ancillary buildings (north-east) with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows and rusticated block-and-start surrounds. Round-headed openings to ancillary buildings (south-east) with leaded stained glass windows and block-and-start surrounds. Camber-headed door openings with block-and-start surrounds, cut stone voussoirs and replacement single and double-leaf timber panelled doors. Retaining interior features. Cut stone boundary walls and gate piers having cast-iron railings and gates.

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