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Saint Joseph's Catholic Church — Toomyvara

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Saint Joseph's Catholic Church — Toomyvara
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Fresstanding T-plan gable-fronted Catholic church, built c.1815, having chamfered re-entrant corners and three-bay nave elevations. Pitched artificial slate roofs. Pebble-dashed and rendered walls. Pointed-arch windows to nave with Y-tracery and double timber sliding sash windows, margined one-over-one pane to re-entrant corners, four-over-six pane elsewhere, with coloured glass. Stained glass to windows in entrance gable and west wall. Timber double-leaf battened doors with stained-glass over-lights. Reredos has stepped plan and consists of advanced columns with pilasters to wall, with composite capitals and supporting entablature. Entrance end has gallery with carved timber rail and supported on Ionic columns with entablature. Graveyard to site. Cast-iron gates and railings having brick plinth and brick piers and walls to site.

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