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Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart — Oola

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Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart — Oola
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Freestanding gable-fronted barn style Roman Catholic church, built in 1838, comprising gable-fronted breakfront to front (south-west) elevation having adjoining porches to south-east and north-west elevations. Four-bay nave having single-bay single-storey sacristy to rear (north-east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with mixed cast-iron rainwater goods and cast-iron cross finial to breakfront. Flat roofs to porches and sacristy. Roughcast rendered walls having render plinth course to front elevation and sacristy, lined-and-ruled rendered walls to nave. Pointed arch openings with Y-tracery stained glass windows and limestone sills. Pointed arch opening to south-west elevation having painted sill and stained glass window. Square-headed openings to porches having render surrounds and timber battened double-leaf doors. Square-headed openings to sacristy with painted sills and timber casement windows, square-headed opening to sacristy having timber battened door with overlight. Rendered steps to entrance. Marble altar to interior. Freestanding gable-fronted bell tower to east having pitched slate roof, cross finial and cast-iron bell. Square-profile rendered piers to west having double-leaf metal gates and flanking pedestrian single-leaf pedestrian gates with square-profile rendered piers. Roughcast rendered boundary walls with render copings and plinths to site.

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