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St Bridget's Roman Catholic Church — Larah

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St Bridget's Roman Catholic Church — Larah
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Freestanding Modern Roman Catholic church on elongated hexagonal-plan, built 1983, arranged symmetrically with tall triangular lantern elements over altar on long east side and in larger canted version on opposite side over separate sacristy and entrance block to front. Shallow multiple pitched slate roof rising to apex with continuous projecting slate-hung parapet band, metal rainwater goods. Slate clad vertical wedge-shaped lanterns with side glazing. Rock-faced dressed sandstone wall cladding, roughly coursed over a plain rendered plinth. Band of clerestory windows below roof to four faces, tall narrow lights over continuous sills with stained glass on short faces beside side entrances. Roughcast rendered walls to entrance block having rows of vertical format windows over continuous sills. Interior space arranged to focus on altar on long east wall. Multiple-faceted sloping polished timber ceiling resting on square-profile wall columns. Large diagonally-sheeted timber-clad light well over altar. Cry chapel to north and confessional to south end. Timber bench seating canted and focussed on altar area. Steps to raised altar area. Boiler house with hipped slate roof and rendered stack and rendered walls to site. Freestanding stone clad belfry to south-west. Roughcast rendered boundary walls with piers.

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