Saint Patrick's Catholic Church — Newport

Detached eight-bay double-height Catholic church, designed 1914; built 1914-8; opened 1918, on a rectangular plan comprising eight-bay double-height nave opening into eight-bay double-height flat-roofed side aisles; single-bay four-stage engaged tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Renovated, 1971, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof abutting flat roofs behind parapets (side aisles), clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gables including lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gable (east) with dragged cut-limestone Celtic Cross finial to apex, and concealed rainwater goods retaining rosette-embossed cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Part repointed tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone battered walls with margined rock faced sandstone battered piers including margined rock faced sandstone battered piers to corners supporting parapets on tooled cut-sandstone dentil consoles having lichen-spotted cut-granite chamfered coping; part repointed tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone battered walls (tower) with "arrow loop"-detailed margined rock faced sandstone parapet having cut-granite chamfered coping. Round-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement in square-headed recesses with dragged cut-limestone engaged colonette mullions, and margined rock faced sandstone ashlar voussoirs with "Cavetto" hood mouldings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Round-headed "Trinity Window" (east) with margined rock faced hammered sandstone block-and-start surrounds including margined rock faced sandstone ashlar voussoirs framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Round-headed door opening (tower) with flights of five poured concrete bowed steps, cut-sandstone block-and-start surround having engaged colonette-detailed rebated reveals with hood moulding framing timber boarded double doors. Round-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (second stage) with cut-sandstone engaged colonette mullions, and hammered sandstone block-and-start surround with hood moulding framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Square-headed "arrow loop" openings (third stage) with margined rock faced hammered sandstone block-and-start surrounds. Grouped round-headed openings (bell stage) with cut-sandstone engaged colonette mullions, and sandstone ashlar voussoirs framing louvered fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers below overlights; full-height interior with timber panelled organ gallery on a half-octagonal plan supporting timber panelled pipe organ (1916), herring bone-pattern timber parquet central aisle between roll topped timber pews, round-headed arcades on dragged limestone ashlar pillars, barrel vaulted ceiling with moulded ribs on corbels, "basket weave" timber parquet stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1971, with carpeted stepped "predella" supporting cut-veined white marble Gothic-style reredos below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (1930), statue-topped side altars below stained glass memorial windows (1971), Gothic-style timber stations (side aisles), and groin vaulted ceilings. Set in landscaped grounds on an elevated site.