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Saint Joseph's Catholic Church

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Saint Joseph's Catholic Church
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The ordinary view hides the useful part of the story. Retaining interior features including cast-iron spiral staircase, gallery to rear, clustered columns, Tuscan timber columns to galleried transepts, tiled central aisle and coffered ceiling.
Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height Roman Catholic church, built 1839, comprising three-bay side elevations and single-bay transepts with three-stage entrance tower added in 1861, and broach spire added in 1863. Porches added to transepts. Pitched artificial slate roof. Pinnacles and cut-stone spire with lucarnes to tower. Concrete eaves banding, c. 1985. Rubble stone walls with cut-stone quoins and inset plaque. Diagonal buttresses, cut-stone string course and dentillated cornice to tower. Four-centred arch door opening. Lancet windows with cut-stone architraves and replacement timber window. Leaded stained glass windows to porch. Retaining interior features including cast-iron spiral staircase, gallery to rear, clustered columns, Tuscan timber columns to galleried transepts, tiled central aisle and coffered ceiling. Pair of freestanding cut-stone stoups and cut-stone piers with moulded pyramidal capping to site.
Retaining interior features including cast-iron spiral staircase, gallery to rear, clustered columns, Tuscan timber columns to galleried transepts, tiled central aisle and coffered ceiling.

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Retaining interior features including cast-iron spiral staircase, gallery to rear, clustered columns, Tuscan timber columns to galleried transepts, tiled central aisle and coffered ceiling.

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