Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart — Lisvarrinane

Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built c. 1835, aligned north-south, with four-bay nave elevations and having flat-roofed twentieth-century sacristy extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron ridge crestings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut limestone coping and cross to gable-front. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls with ashlar platbands to gable-front, hood-mouldings to openings with alternate sandstone and limestone voussoirs and having corner clasping buttresses with cut limestone detail and centrally-placed carved niche with trefoil-headed canopy and containing Sacred Heart statue. Pebbledashed walls to other elevations with smooth rendered plinth. Gable-front has pointed arch two-light windows flanking statue niche, with oculi over under carved limestone hood-mouldings and having cut limestone surrounds and stained glass. Cinquefoil window to upper gable-front having hood-moulding. Triple-lancet window to altar end with stained glass. Pointed arch window openings elsewhere, with cut limestone sills and twentieth-century stained glass windows. Pointed arch door opening to gable-front with carved chamfered limestone surround and hood moulding and double-leaf timber door with decorative cast-iron hinges. Pointed arch door openings to transepts with cut limestone block-and-start surrounds and double-leaf timber doors with decorative cast-iron hinges. Exposed timber scissors truss roof to interior. Carved timber gallery with decorative cast-iron spiral staircase to entrance end of nave. Byzantine-style carved marble altar and reredos. Single marble column supporting paired chamfered Tudor arches at unctions with transepts. Patterned tiling to floor. Lawned graveyard and steel belfry to site.