Church Of St Patrick

Church of St Patrick

This church was built in 1906 and designed by GE Smith. It is constructed of red brick laid in stretcher bond with a slate roof.

The building is planned as a five-bay nave with the sanctuary located at the west end (liturgical east). A north wing contains a central main entrance porch and vestibule, with a chapel and balcony stairs to the east and a community room to the west. The south wing has balcony stairs to the east, with a choir vestry and sacristy chapel to the west.

The north face features a central three-bay projection with a porch opening at its centre. The porch has a round stone arch with stone jambs. Behind this is a two-leaf round-headed door with lower boarded panels and upper six-pane panels on each leaf. A stone ogee dripstone runs over the entrance, with a flat stone dentilled cornice above. A niche with a moulded round stone arch, imposts, and short flanking attached columns with foliated capitals is set within recessed corners with rusticated stone jambs. Battered brick pilasters flank the porch and appear at each end, terminating above the eaves with slightly curved stone coping. On each side of the porch, each bay contains a stone three-light traceried window with a wide centre light and narrow flanking lights, all under a round stone arch with keystone and rusticated jambs, featuring leaded lights. The porch and flanking bays have facing semicircular stone-coped gables with kneelers set between pilasters. At the far left (east), the recessed chapel has a high-level two-light wide transomed and mullioned stone window with leaded lights set under a flat stone eaved arch. At the far right (west) is a semicircular three-light stone mullioned window with leaded lights.

The west face has five mullioned and traceried stone windows with leaded lights at the centre of the nave, each set under a round-headed stone arch. The centre three windows are taller than the flanking ones. A stone oculus is set in a facing stone-coped gable with kneelers. The far left (north) wing has a facing semicircular stone-coped gable.

The east face has a slightly projecting porch on the right (north) with a recessed two-leaf boarded door. The upper part is glazed with leaded lights set under a round stone arch with splayed and curved stone jambs, keystone and keyed jambs, and serpentine moulded stone coping. At first floor are two two-light stone mullioned windows with leaded lights, splayed stone jambs, and set under flat stone arches with moulded brick eaves. To the left (south) is the slightly projecting nave with a five-light stone mullioned and transomed window with leaded lights, keystone and rusticated jambs, each light with a round stone arch. Above this is a large seven-light Geometrical traceried stone window with leaded lights set under a segmental stone arch with rusticated jambs, all within a facing semicircular stone-coped gable. Round stone turrets flank the nave on each side, each with four corner tapering columns rising above the eaves cornice and topped with a stone dome. Each side of the turrets has a two-light stone traceried window. To the left (south) is a porch with a two-leaf door and high-level window similar to the far right.

Internally, the five-bay nave contains four curved hammer beam trusses with moulded wall posts supported on stone corbels and a boarded ceiling to the underside of the rafters. A balcony at the east end has moulded timber front panels set in front of the east window. The sanctuary at the west (liturgical east) end features traceried windows set within a recessed wall face with a round arch. The church windows contain partial stained glass.