| Description | This church was built in 1852 3 and was the second Catholic Church in Bradford. The priest’s house was added in 1866. The architect was George Goldie, of Weightman, Hadfield and Goldie, and he designed these buildings in c.1300 Gothic style. It is a complicated and picturesque grouping of house, church and school on a corner site with Westgate. They are built of sandstone ‘brick’ with ashlar dressings.
The church has a tall nave, with shallow aisles and a slightly lower chancel. It has a large ogee arched window of six lights to the east, with curvilinear tracery to the head that is of ornate pattern.
The priest’s house stands on the corner, and is two storeys high with a steep hipped slate roof. It has canted oriel bay windows, with single, two and three light cusped headed windows otherwise. The statue of St Patrick appears as an inset on the corner at first floor level. There are external chimneys and a two storey gabled porch to the return, with a shafted doorway under a pointed arch. The linking range to the church has two gabled semi dormers flanking an external chimney. To the rear of the priest’s house is a bell cot with a stone spirelet.
The school to the west end of the site has mullioned transomed windows, with pointed heads to the lights, and a stone slate roof. |