Saint Joseph's Catholic Church — Carras

Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, designed 1960; built 1961-2; dedicated 1962, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (east) front. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles with copper-covered louvered bellcote to apex to entrance (east) front, and concealed rainwater goods in concrete box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Triangular-headed window openings with concrete sills, concrete Y-mullions, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Triangular-headed window opening (porch) with concrete sill, concrete Y-mullion, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Triangular-headed opposing door openings ("cheeks") with concealed dressings framing timber panelled doors. Interior including vestibule (east) with cut-veined white marble wall monument (1979); triangular-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber double doors having overlight; full-height interior open into roof with carpeted central aisle between timber pews, paired stations between stained glass memorial windows (1961), exposed timber roof construction on corbels, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing herring bone-pattern timber parquet stepped dais to sanctuary (west) with monolithic timber communion railing centred on cut-veined white marble Gothic-style altar. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting flat iron-detailed wrought iron double gates.