
What is recorded here
Detached Roman Catholic church, built c.1880 and altered in 1941, on a T-plan with bell tower and porches to northern gable and transepts. Pitched slate roof with bronze cross finials. Copper roof to bell tower and statue of St. Patrick in round-headed niche to lowest stage. Random dressed sandstone walls and plinth with string course to tower and with roughly-dressed quoins and surrounds to openings. Lancet windows with stained glass and pointed-arched windows to porches and west gable. Timber doors. Variety of grave markers to graveyard. Site bounded by random sandstone and rendered walls with wrought-iron railings, rendered gate piers and cast-iron gates.
St. Patrick's Church makes a positive contribution to the streetscape through its textural variation and decorative detailing. The church has notable features and materials including stained glass windows, bell tower, galleries and confessionals. Such elaborate elements are of particular artistic and technical significance.
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