Saint Patrick's Catholic Church — Portlaw

Detached six-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, begun 1858, comprising five-bay double-height nave with single-bay five-stage engaged tower to north on a square plan having polygonal spire, single-bay double-height lower chancel to south-east, and six-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to north-east and to south-west having three-bay single-storey sacristy to south-west. Pitched slate roofs (lean-to to side aisles; pitched to sacristy) with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, cut-stone chimney stack to gable to sacristy, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Limestone ashlar polygonal spire to tower on cut-stone course with gablets having trefoil motifs, and wrought iron cross finial to apex on cut-stone base. Broken coursed squared limestone walls (part repointed, c.2000, with cement) with cut-limestone dressings including stepped buttresses, and limestone ashlar walls to top (bell) stage to tower on cut-stone course. Pierced trefoil window openings to nave forming clere-storey with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals. Paired lancet window openings to south-east having cut-stone block-and-start surrounds with chamfered reveals extending over into hexafoil opening to gable having surround forming pointed-arch frame supporting cut-limestone voussoirs. Grouped (three) lancet window openings to chancel with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, and shared hood moulding over supporting cut-limestone voussoirs. Pointed-arch window openings to side aisles with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, mullions forming paired lancet arrangement with oculus to arch, and hood mouldings over. Fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows to all window openings. Pointed-arch door openings to south-east and to side aisles with cut-stone steps, cut-stone block-and-start surrounds having moulded reveals, cut-stone voussoirs over, and glazed timber panelled double doors with decorative wrought iron hinges. Lancet and square-headed window openings to tower with cut-stone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals and fixed-pane fittings. Trefoil-headed openings to top (bell) stage with cut-stone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch window openings to sacristy with cut-stone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, and iron casement windows. Shouldered square-headed door opening to sacristy with cut-stone block-and-start surround, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Full-height interior open into roof with glazed diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled internal porch supporting timber gallery over to first floor to south-east, carved timber pews, pointed-arch arcade to side aisles on cut-granite pillars, exposed timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels, pointed-arch chancel arch, decorative Gothic-style furniture to altar, carved timber Gothic-style reredos, and coffered ceiling to chancel. Set back from line of road in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having cut-stone piers with moulded cut-limestone capping, wrought iron double gates, and wrought iron flanking pedestrian gate to right (north-east) with cut-stone pier having moulded cut-limestone capping. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers and table tombs, c.1860 – present.