Catholic Church Of The Sacred Heart

HOWDEN TREETON ROAD SE 72 NW (south side)

8/138 Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart

GV II Church. 1850-52 by J A Hansom. White brick with ashlar dressings, slate roof. 6-bay aisled nave with western bellcote, apsidal chancel. Gabled west front: trefoil-headed double-leaf door in pointed arch held on round shafts with plain capitals, flanked by trefoil-cusped single-light windows with 2 tall trefoil-cusped lancets and a trefoil above. To left: octagonal 2-stage staircase turret with narrow square-headed windows, string course between stages, band of trefoils to top and pyramidal roof. To right: stepped buttress with gablet. Aisle west windows: 2-light trefoil-cusped windows with quatrefoils punched through the spandrels. Aisle bays articulated by stepped buttresses with gablets. Paired trefoil-headed lancets to aisles. Paired quatrefoils to clerestory except for a single one to westernmost bay. 3-stepped trefoil-cusped lights with quatrefoils above to east window of south aisle. East window to north aisle obscured by presbytery. Chancel: string course and 5 trefoil-cusped windows. Interior: arcades of pointed arches on octagonal piers. This church is aligned north- south so the points used in the description are ecclesiastical rather than cardinal. Neave D, Howden Explored, 1979. Pevsner N, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, 1972.

Listing NGR: SE7454627956