Catholic Church of the Holy Rosary — Moroe

Freestanding gable-fronted cruciform-plan Romanesque Revival style Roman Catholic church, begun in 1904. Comprising gable-fronted projecting entrance and carved limestone campanile style bellcote with marble columns and cross finial to front (west) elevation, four-bay nave, two-bay transepts, canted chancel and two-bay single-storey sacristy to rear (east) elevation. Pitched slate roofs having limestone copings, cross finials, terracotta ridge tiles and sandstone eaves course. Hipped slate roof to chancel with sandstone eaves course. Hipped slate roof to sacristy having sandstone chimneystack and eaves course. Rusticated sandstone walls with buttresses having limestone caps and limestone plinth course. Round-headed tripartite openings to front with limestone hoodmouldings, block-and-start surround, continuous sill course and stained glass windows. Round-headed openings having alternating sandstone and limestone voussoirs, limestone hoodmouldings, block-and-start surrounds and stained glass windows. Limestone multifoil rose stained windows with alternating sandstone and limestone voussoirs to transepts, north and south elevations. Entrance comprising ashlar limestone surround, paired marble columns with carved limestone capitals supporting limestone hoodmoulding with carved sawtooth motifs over double-leaf timber battened doors having wrought-iron strap hinges. Timber scissors truss roof with render corbels to interior. Carrara marble high altar 'Cornonation of the Belssed Virgin Mary' designed and executed by Edmund Sharpe. Geometric tiled floor. Round-headed arcade having marble columns and render capitals. Mosaic tiling to chancel. Timber gallery to entrance. Pair of cast-and-wrought-iron piers to west having cross finials, double-leaf cast-iron gates and inscribed plaque to north pier. Sandstone boundary walls with cast-iron railings.