Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist — CASTLEGRACE

Freestanding gable-fronted cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, dated 1829, having two-bay nave elevation, bellcote to entrance gable, and with bevelled corners between full-height transepts and sacristy. Pitched artificial slate roofs, with cut sandstone pinnacles to front gable and cut sandstone bellcote with crenellations and pinnacles. Rendered walls and plinth, with snecked cut sandstone and limestone slightly advanced entrance bay. Four-centred arched openings to front elevation having cut sandstone voussoirs and impost courses, with leaded stained-glass window and timber battened double doors with stained-glass fanlight. Round-arched door opening to sacristy with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs and doorcase to sacristy, having timber battened door and leaded fanlight. Pointed-arch openings to nave and transepts with stained-glass windows with timber Y-tracery and timber battened doors. Timber screen to entrance, with carved timber gallery over, and carved timber confessional. Sculpted marble and render reredos with broken based pediment and engaged Ionic columns, incorporating canted stained-glass windows, manufactured c.1925. Carved marble altar rails, altar and tabernacle. Render ceiling rose to crossing. Cast-iron pews. Graveyard to site. Lined-and-ruled rendered boundary walls with rendered coping, cut sandstone square-plan piers with cut limestone bases and wrought-iron double-leaf gates.