Saint Joseph's Catholic Church

Detached ten-bay double-height Catholic church, dated 1873; opened 1873, on a rectangular plan comprising eight-bay double-height nave opening into two-bay double-height chancel (east); single-bay three-stage tower (south-west) on a square plan supporting broach spire. Renovated, 1912, with interior "improved". Renovated, 1940, with sanctuary "improved". Renovated, 1976, with sanctuary reordered. Restored, 2000-1. Pitched slate roofs with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite ogee kneelers with Cross finials to apexes; and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite "Cavetto" consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed cut-granite banded snecked rubble stone walls on benchmark-inscribed cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with cut-granite diagonal stepped buttresses to corners having cut-granite "slated" coping. Lancet window openings, cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Hexafoil-detailed pointed-arch window opening (east) with cut-granite thumbnail beaded sill, cut-granite mullions, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front with cut-granite threshold, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing timber boarded double doors. Pointed-arch window opening (gable) with cut-granite Y-mullion, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers below overlight; full-height interior open into roof restored, 2000-1, with arcaded choir gallery (west) below stained glass memorial "West Window" (1912), encaustic tiled central aisle between Maltese Cross-detailed timber pews, timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting supporting carved timber dado rail, paired timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (1912), exposed pointed-arch braced scissor truss timber roof construction on cut-granite corbels with wind braced timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice, and carpeted cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1976, with pointed-arch chancel arch framing Gothic-style high altar below stained glass memorial "East Window" (1912) in mosaic tiled surround. Set in landscaped grounds with cut-granite piers to perimeter having cut-granite chamfered capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed wrought iron double gates.