Roman Catholic Church Of St Vincent De Paul

Roman Catholic Church of St Vincent de Paul

A Roman Catholic church completed in 1932, designed by architects Jopling & Wright. The building is constructed of brick with brick dressings and pantile roofs, executed in Romanesque style.

The church comprises a nave with clerestorey and chancel under a continuous roof, aisles with internal chapels, porches, a vestry, and a square campanile positioned to the south-west.

The clerestorey features seven round-headed windows on each side. The eastern apse has a dentillated eaves cornice and is flanked by two narrow flat-headed windows. The west end displays a tall rebated round-arched recess containing a stained-glass window. Below this sits a shallow gabled porch with a pair of composite columns, which encloses a round-arched recess with a pair of panelled glazed doors fitted with metal grilles. Above the enriched lintel, a coat of arms is set in the tympanum. To either side are small flat-headed windows, with a half-round stair turret featuring slit windows positioned in the left return angle.

The south aisle, linked to the campanile by a coped porch, has cogged eaves and a coped parapet. It contains a single window at the west end and two smaller windows at the east end. The south side of the aisle has four windows to the right of the campanile. The porch features a round-arched pair of doors with a metal-grilled overlight and a square latticed window above. The north aisle has five windows to the north and two small windows to the east.

The vestry, situated to the south-east, is topped with a gable stack. Its south gable has a round-arched recess with two windows flanked by single windows. The east side incorporates a Venetian window, while the west side has a moulded round-arched doorway with a single window to its right.

The square campanile rises through four stages. The lower stages each have a single flat-headed window on all sides. The corners are rebated with corbelled turrets at the top of the third stage. The octagonal bell stage is corniced with ribbed corners and four double bell openings divided by a central shaft. A set-back canted roof topped with a cross crowns the structure.

The interior features moulded arches without piers to a single-bay chancel and half-domed apse. Five-bay arcades support round ashlar piers with cushion capitals, connected by moulded brick round arches with linked hoodmoulds. A painted sill band runs beneath the clerestorey, while a painted waggon roof on corbels spans the nave and chancel. The west end contains a rebated round arch holding the organ and spanned by a bow-fronted gallery. Below are central paired glazed doors flanked by three glazed doors serving the confessionals.

The aisles have strutted lean-to roofs and windows filled with patterned stained glass. The south aisle contains a Lady Chapel to the east, with an altar flanked by stained-glass windows and a squint providing a view into the chancel. A round-arched doorway opens to the south-east. The Chapel of St Vincent at the west end houses a wooden altar with a figure and a stained-glass war memorial window. The north aisle features a similar Sacred Heart chapel to the east, with an altar flanked by stained-glass windows.

The church's fittings include an eggcup font mounted on a cruciform stand, a panelled wooden lectern, and wooden benches with shaped ends.