Catholic Church of the Assumption — Lattin

Detached cruciform-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built 1863, with three-bay-nave, single-bay chancel and transepts, latter with gable-roofed entrance porches, and single-storey flat-roofed sacristy to north-east. Pitched artificial slate roof with carved stone copings, cross finials to all gables and having carved limestone bellcote to front elevation. Cut sandstone gable-front, cut limestone to porches and snecked limestone elsewhere, with buttresses to corners and between bays of nave, having carved limestone string course to gable-front and to walls of transepts, and limestone plinth. Pointed arch window openings with intersecting limestone tracery, stained glass and chamfered block-and-start limestone surrounds and carved limestone hood mouldings. Double-light to nave, triple-light to gable-front and transepts and triple-light to chancel. Trefoil windows to upper gables with carved limestone surrounds. Pointed arch main door opening with chamfered limestone block-and-start surround and hood moulding to double-leaf timber battened door with decorative strap hinges. Square-headed door openings to porches and three-centred doorway to sacristy, all with timber battened doors. High altar of marble, Caen stone and brass; front depicting Pietá with weeping angels; ornate carved marble reredos depicting Annunciation, Nativity, Flight into Egypt and Coronation of the Virgin. Render rib vaulting to ceiling with elaborate corbels incorporating colonettes. Carved timber gallery over main entrance area. Graveyard to site. Ornate cast-iron gates to front boundary between octagonal carved limestone piers and flanked by ornate cast-iron railings on limestone plinth wall. Rubble limestone walls to other boundaries. Graveyard adjoined by decoratively-rendered entrance gates to Lattin House.