Church Of St Joseph And Adjoining Presbytery

The Church of St Joseph and the adjoining presbytery in Newton Abbot is a Roman Catholic church built in 1915 by architects Scoles and Raymond. Constructed from polygonal coursed Devon limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, it features a steeply-pitched slate roof and is designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The church has a tall gabled facade facing the street, flanked by octagonal turrets that have gabled and panelled tops. At the apex, there is a stone cross, and a triple niche with a statue is positioned above a 6-cusped circular window. Below this, five trefoil-headed lancets sit on a sill band above double planked doors, which are topped by a gold mosaic tympanum set in a moulded pointed arch with colonettes. A hoodmould extends over similar 2-light windows on either side of the door. The sill band continues beneath the parapets of castellated single-storey canted wings on each side, featuring a trefoil-headed window on the left wing and a 2-light Decorated style window on the front of the right wing.

To the left of the church is the presbytery, which has an external stack on the left gable end and a ridge stack to the left of center. This two-storey building has a double-depth plan and a three-window range. It features moulded kneelers and coping on the gable ends, a central forward-facing gable, and a small half dormer on the left. The windows are 2/2-pane sash types with horizontal glazing bars; those on the first floor have shallow pointed arches, while the ground floor windows have shouldered arches. The central gable and the left ground-floor window are set under relieving arches. Attached to the church is a 20th-century range with flat arches over paired windows and a 20th-century door to the right of the central gable.

The interior has not been inspected but is reported to contain plain fittings and Perpendicular-style arcades, making it a notably conservative example of church architecture in this almost pre-Ecclesiological style.