Saint Patrick's Catholic Church

Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1870-1; dedicated 1871, on a rectangular plan with abbreviated single-bay full-height buttressed breakfront to entrance (west) front. Stabilised, 1961, producing present composition. Renovated, 1968, with sanctuary reordered. Replacement pitched slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gable (east) on cut-granite "Cavetto" corbel kneelers with Cross finial to apex, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on "Cavetto"-detailed exposed timber rafters. Part repointed tuck pointed snecked rubble Knockavocka stone battered walls with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite surrounds having concave reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) with cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front approached by flight of four cut-granite steps with cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered rebated reveals framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overlight. Lancet "Trinity Window" to gable with cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with replacement glazed timber double doors; full-height interior open into roof with frosted glass "Trinity Window" (west), carpeted central aisle between replacement timber pews (1968), timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting supporting timber dado rail, paired Gothic-style timber stations between frosted glass windows with pair of stained glass memorial windows (1898), pair of cut-limestone Classical-style wall monuments (ob. 1863; 1889), herring bone-pattern timber parquet stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1968, with trefoil-detailed timber panelled altar below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (----), and exposed braced strutted collared timber roof construction on cruciform-detailed cut-granite corbels with wind braced timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling on moulded plasterwork cornice. Set in relandscaped grounds.