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Star of the Sea Catholic Church — Desertegney

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Star of the Sea Catholic Church — Desertegney
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Freestanding six-bay Catholic church, built 1964, with internal gallery, apsidal altar end, projecting sacristy, entrance porches and split bell tower. Shallow pitched copper roof with overhanging eaves, flat felted roofs to entrance porches. Roughcast rendered walls with rounded corners and smooth rendered plinth and mosaic to south gable. Square and rectangular-shaped window openings with bowed heads and sills and smooth rendered surrounds with timber frames containing leaded stained glass. Square-headed door openings with double leafed timber glazed doors and timber glazing to porches. Interior comprising two lines of tapered mushroom-headed columns to either side of nave, with choir balcony to rear and rounded apse for altar, all with a rough plaster finish. Timber and metal spiral staircase to balcony. Timber pews bisected by central aisle. Set within own grounds with rubble stone wall to road.

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