Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart — Dunhill

Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1883, on a cruciform plan comprising five-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south having single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porches, and single-bay double-height lower chancel to west having two-bay single-storey sacristy to south-west. Reroofed, pre-1999. Pitched roofs on a cruciform plan (lean-to to porches; pitched to sacristy) with replacement artificial slate, pre-1999, clay ridge tiles, copper-lined coping having cross finials to apexes, cut-stone chimney stack to sacristy, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls with cut-limestone quoins to corners. Lancet window openings (in tripartite arrangement to entrance (east) front and to chancel) with cut-limestone chamfered reveals, cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds, and fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-limestone chamfered doorcase having hood moulding over, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors with decorative wrought iron hinges. Full-height interior open into roof with glazed timber panelled internal porch, carved timber pews, carved timber stations, carved marble wall memorials, timber panelled gallery to first floor (east), pointed-arch arcades to transepts on polished pink granite columns, Gothic-style altar furniture, and part exposed roof construction on cut-stone corbels. Set in own grounds with transept to north fronting on to road. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1760 - present. (iii) Freestanding single-bay two-stage rubble stone tower, c.1760, to south-west on a square plan with stringcourses to each stage, and gabled bellcote over having cast-iron bell.