St. Joseph's Church Complex

St. Joseph's Church Complex is an historic Roman Catholic church complex at 1303 Mendon Road in Cumberland, Rhode Island within the Diocese of Providence. It includes a Gothic Revival style church along with two late 19th-century, clapboard-sheathed, wood-frame structures on the east side of Mendon Road.DescriptionThe handsome, asymmetrical, twin-spired Gothic Revival St. Joseph’s Church was designed around 1888-1890 by architect F.E. Page. The building has a tall, end-gable-roof, rectangular mass with a polygonal, hip-roof apse at the northeast end. One-story, shed-roof side aisles continue around the apse as an ambulatory to connect to a projecting, rectangular chapel. The three-story, shorter corner tower has paired lancet windows, battlemented string courses, louver-filled Gothic arches, and is topped by a broach spire. The four-story tower has large, traceried Gothic windows, drip molds, and is surmounted by an octagonal belfry and spire.