St Josephs Chapel

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SK38NW HOWARD ROAD 784-1/5/440 (North West side) 28/06/73 St Joseph's Chapel (Formerly Listed as: HOWARD ROAD Chapel at St Joseph's Home)

GV II

Roman Catholic church. Dated 1870. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs. Shouldered double side wall stack. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: built on a sloping site with basement rooms under the west end. Apsidal nave with side corridor, transept, chapel and west porch all on south side. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth and string courses, coped gables. Apse has 3 lancets with linked hoodmoulds. Nave has buttressed south side with 4 lancets. North side has 2 buttresses to east and 4 lancets arranged 2:2. Below them, to west, cross casement windows and a door. West gable has a triple lancet and is topped with a shouldered gabled single bellcote with cross. Side corridor has 7 slit windows. Transept has a 2-light pointed arch window. Chapel has 3 slit lights. Angle buttressed porch has cove moulded doorway with hoodmould and engaged shafts. INTERIOR has plaster vault with wooden ribs. Continuous string course. East end has painted and gilt stone reredos with crested blind arcading, central tabernacle and flanking buttresses with figures, topped with spires. Matching altar. Aumbry to south and piscina to right. West end has central recess and panelled gallery with stairs to south. Sides have doorways and figure niches.

Listing NGR: SK3347288124