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Saint Joseph's Catholic Church — Glenhest

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Saint Joseph's Catholic Church — Glenhest
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Detached six-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1838, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Lancet window openings, rendered surrounds with hood mouldings on ogee-detailed labels stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on stained glass roundels. Lancet "Trinity Window" (west), rendered surrounds with hood mouldings on ogee-detailed label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Full-height interior open into roof with cruciform-detailed drag edged dragged cut-limestone baptismal font on an octagonal plan (east), carpeted central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, stations between stained glass windows, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (west) reordered, ----, with replacement timber altar below stained glass "Trinity Window" (----), and exposed arch braced strutted collared timber roof construction on thumbnail beaded corbels with wind braced ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds with repointed sandstone ashlar piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron double gates.

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