St Patrick, SHERCOCK, Roman Catholic

A barn-type church, built in 1838, at the north-west end of the village, with many later additions possibly including the chancel and certainly the flanking tower and more recent sacristies and confessionals. It retains layers of historic fabric, having been built in the decade after Catholic Emancipation, enlarged through the raising of the walls and reroofing in the early decades of the twentieth century, and refurbished internally to reflect Vatican II changes in 1988. The building retains its historic architectural integrity with a broad gabled front and Gothic idioms of ogee-headed hood mouldings and Y-tracery windows. Though altered internally, the earlier stations of the cross are relocatd to the chancel, while the barrel vaulted roof with flat coffered ceiling in the wide nave remain.

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