Saint Coca's Catholic Church — Church Street

Detached five-bay single- and two-storey Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1861-7, comprising five-bay double-height nave with four-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to north-west and to south-east having single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south, single-bay single-storey projecting bays to north and to south (including sacristy projection), and single-bay four-stage tower to south-west on a square plan. Gable-ended roof with slate (lean-to to side aisles with gable to porch; gable-ended to projecting bays to north and to south; pyramidal to tower). Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables with cross finials to apexes. Cut-stone corbelled eaves to tower. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Irregular coursed cut-limestone walls. Cut-stone dressings including clasping stepped buttresses and quoins. Cast-iron clock faces to third stage to tower with cut-stone gabled hood moulding over having cut-stone flanking medallions. Paired trefoil-headed window openings in lancet-arch frames with quatrefoils to arches. Cut-stone chamfered sills and block-and-start surrounds having hood mouldings over. Pierced trefoil windows to clere-storey with cut-stone surrounds. Tripartite trefoil-headed window to chancel (north-east) in lancet-arch frame with quatrefoils over. Cut-stone chamfered sills and block-and-start surround having hood moulding over. Fixed-pane stained glass windows to all openings. Paired lancet-arch window openings to second stage to tower in pointed-arch frame having octafoil to arch. Cut-stone chamfered sill and block-and-start surround having hood moulding over. Fixed-pane windows. Paired lancet-arch openings to top stage. Cut-stone moulded chamfered surrounds with hood mouldings over. Louvered timber panelled fittings. Square-headed door opening (pointed-arch to porch). Cut-stone shouldered surround and moulded doorcase having colonettes and hood moulding over. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Carved stone wall memorials to porch with lancet-arch door opening to nave having block-and-start surround, glazed timber panelled double doors and decorative overlight. Full-height interior to nave open into roof. Lancet-arch arcade to side aisles on cut-granite columns. Gothic-style timber gallery to first floor to south-west on brackets. Exposed timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels. Carved timber altar furniture with decorative Gothic-style reredos to north-east. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt to front.Gateway, c.1865, to south-west comprising pair of limestone ashlar panelled piers with triangular capping having cast-iron double gates, cast-iron flanking pedestrian gates and cut-stone outer piers.