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Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Wayside — Birdhill

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Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Wayside — Birdhill
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Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic church, built c.1890, with four-bay side elevations to nave, sacristy to northeast with recent extension, and polygonal apse. Pitched slate roof, hipped to apse, with cast-iron rainwater goods and having cut limestone belfry to gable-front. Coursed snecked sandstone walls with cut limestone to window and door openings and to quoins. Chamfered pointed arch block-and-start surrounds to openings. Lancet windows to nave, tripled to gable front, with stained glass. Alternate sandstone and limestone voussoirs above gable-front openings and blocked side door of south wall. Main entrance has replacement timber double-leaf door and over-door. Shouldered-arch doorway to sacristy. Exposed arch-braced queen-post truss roof to interior. Carved timber gallery to entrance end. Cast-iron entrance gates in rubble limestone boundary wall.

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