St Brigid's Roman Catholic Church — DRUMHURT

Freestanding T-plan Modern style Roman Catholic church, built c.1980, incorporating Gothic Revival three-stage tower of earlier church of 1889. Pitched slate roof to church overhanging at eaves and gables, hipped slate lean-to roof to porches, metal rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth to front. Large format windows to nave with slate cladding to beam above and subdivided timber screen windows. Asymmetrical placed timber screen windows in transept gables with close-spaced mullions, also with slate cladding above opening. Timber entrance screens either side of tower with close spaced mullions and subdivisions to doors. Stained glass inlays in nave windows probably from earlier church. Interior with flat timber sheeted ceiling, plastered walls, carpeted floor and timber pews. Altar area raised above steps with classical style reredos. Tower having roof with slated spire having metal vane, ashlar parapet with pointed corner pinnacles all standing on profiled cornice. Corner pilasters to upper stage, carrying pinnacles and framing random squared stone wall with louvred lancet openings, string course below. First and second stages with dressed stone quoins, oculi, and date stone on faces of middle stage. Date plaque giving 1844 and 1899 dates to north side of second stage. Lancet window to north face of bottom stage with multiple-pane timber window having switch-line tracery. Pointed arch door opening to east with stone dressing and replacement timber sheeted door with overlight. Church located on gentle sloping site with steps from entrance podium either side of tower to road. Graveyard to side and rear. Low masonry boundary wall with square-profile roughcast rendered piers having triangular cappings.