Church Of St Joseph And Attached Presbytery

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SD 51 SW 5/98

WRIGHTINGTON CROW ORCHARD ROAD Church of St Joseph and attached Presbytery

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Roman Catholic church and presbytery. 1892 by James Sinnott. Sandstone rubble with slate roofs. Church comprises a nave, south porch, north and south transepts, crossing tower, and apsidal chancel. Nave of 3 bays with windows of 2 trefoiled lights under a pointed head with quatrefoil. Porch is gabled with outer doorway chamfered in 2 orders. West window of 4 lights under a pointed head with tracery. Crossing tower has pyramid roof. On each side are 2 bell openings of 2 lights with pointed heads. The apse is 3-sided and has paired trefoiled lancet windows. In the north wall of the north transept are 2 similar windows. Above is a rose window. The south transept also has a rose window, above a single-storey lean-to link to the presbytery. Projecting from the south wall of the presbytery are 2 square bays under hipped roofs. Each has sashed windows with no glazing bars separated by flat-faced mullions, of 2 lights on the ground floor and 3 lights on the 1st floor.Interior: nave roof is boarded. The trusses have curved braces to collars and are carried on corbels. The crossing arches are pointed and chamfered in 2 orders. The inner orders spring from semi-octagonal responds carried on carved corbels. The south transept contains an organ. The north transept is divided from the crossing by a timber screen. The chancel has alabaster inlay below the level of the windows, which have stencil decoration to the reveals. Behind the altar is an iron openwork canopy.

Listing NGR: SD5371510913