Tsuwano’s Tangible Cultural Property: Catholic Church

The Catholic Church and the Clergy house was built in 1931, on the grounds where once the Hori Kurobei residence stood, a family from the chief’s of Tsuwano town. The building is of Gothic style, a wooden structure with gabled metal roof and a single bell tower. The building has stained glass on the south and north side. The clergy house is a 2 storey hip roofed wooden structure, clapboard/weatherboard on the outer wall, which gives it a western design. The Hori Kurobei residence’s Japanese style garden has been preserved in front of the entrance (of the clergy house)

The walls and gates are mainly from the reconstruction of Edo period townscape done in the 1970s, with exception of the Tago gate and wall, the foundation stones of the Hankou domain school which is from the Edo period(1600-1868), and the stone walls of the waterways, which are from Meiji period (1868-1912). The same way the stone foundation at the Catholic Church are the remaining of the Meiji period’s Hori residence. 

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カトリック教会・神父館

教会は、昭和6年（1931）町年寄堀九郎兵衛宅跡に神父館とともに建設された。ゴシック風意匠を持つ教会は木造平家建切妻造鉄板葺単塔式で、南北面には簡素なデザインのステンドグラスを設ける。神父館は木造総二階建寄棟造で、外壁を下見板張とし洋風なデザインとなっている。玄関前には堀九郎兵衛宅の和風庭園がそのままに保存されている。

津和野町伝統文化活性化協議会、平成２４年３月発行