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Saint Patrick's Catholic Church — Chapel Lane

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Saint Patrick's Catholic Church — Chapel Lane
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Detached six-bay double-height Catholic church, rebuilt 1928-9; dated 1930; dedicated 1930, on a cruciform plan comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height shallow chancel to crossing (east). Renovated, 1997, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan with clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables on "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed thumbnail beaded corbel kneelers including concrete coping to gable to entrance (west) front on "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed thumbnail beaded corbel kneelers with rendered buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing embossed cast-bronze bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on "Cavetto" consoles on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes . Rendered, ruled and line walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings on "Cavetto" label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Windows" (transepts) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings on "Cavetto" label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Window" (east) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings on "Cavetto" label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Window" to entrance (west) front with concrete sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings on "Cavetto" label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with replacement glazed timber double doors having overlight; full-height interior open into roof with quatrefoil-detailed timber panelled choir gallery (west) below stained glass "Trinity Window" (----), encaustic tiled central aisle between timber pews, Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (----) with Gothic-style timber stations to transepts below stained glass memorial "Trinity Windows" (----), exposed pointed-arch braced collared timber roof construction on beaded "Bowtell" corbels with wind braced ceiling in carved timber frame on carved timber cornice on perforated frieze, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary to crossing (east) reordered, 1997, with replacement timber altar table below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (----). Set in landscaped grounds.

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