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Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart — The Folly

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Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart — The Folly
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Detached single-bay double-height International Modern-style Catholic church, built 1973, on an octagonal plan on a corner site with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting open porch to south, single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting bays to north, to east, and to west, and single-bay single-storey flat-roofed aisles to remaining elevations. Part refenestrated, pre-1999. Octagonal roof comprising reinforced concrete beams with flat copper-clad infill roofs in stepped arrangement covering fixed-pane leaded stained glass lights, and cross finial to apex. Flat concrete roofs to projecting bays and to aisles behind parapets. Concrete brick English bond walls with mass-concrete parapets to projecting bays and to aisles. Square-headed window openings forming clere-storey with fixed-pane leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed window openings to aisles with poured-concrete tracery, and stained glass lights. Square-headed window openings to projecting bay to east with concrete sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows, pre-1999. Square-headed door openings to projecting bay to south under projecting open porch having reinforced concrete posts, glazed timber double doors, and fixed-pane timber lights. Full-height interior open into roof with central altar on a stepped base. Set back from line of road in own grounds on a stepped base on a corner site with tarmacadam grounds to site.

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