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Detached four-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, built 1827, with single-bay double-height lower chancel to south-east having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed flanking bays (including sacristy projection). Renovated, 1858, with single-bay three-stage tower added to north-west on a square plan with broach spire. Renovated, c.1860, with two-bay two-storey double-pile baptistery added to south-east. Renovated, c.1890, with single-bay two-storey gabled projecting bay added to south-east to baptistery with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to ground floor. Renovated, 1953, with group of three single-bay single-storey flat-roofed yellow brick projecting blocks added to south-west (including mortuary chapel). Renovated, c.1990, with single-bay double-height flat-roofed chapel added to tower to north-west with full-height projecting bay to north-west on a triangular plan. Gable-ended roofs with slate (behind battlemented parapet walls to gables to nave). Clay ridge tiles. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on iron brackets. Granite ashlar broach spire to tower with gabled lucarnes. Flat-roofs to additional bays behind blocking courses/parapet walls. Materials not visible. Iron cross finial. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Cut-stone dressings including quoins to corners, stringcourses, stepped buttresses (some clasping to corners). Rubble stone battlemented parapet walls to gables (on stringcourse to chancel) with cut-stone coping having decorative pinnacles to corners over buttresses and decorative finials to apexes. Rendered walls to baptistery. Ruled and lined. Unpainted. Red brick dressings including quoins to corners. Yellow brick walls to projecting block to south-west. Concrete coping. Coursed cut-limestone cladding to walls to chapel to north-west. Cut-stone quoins. Cut-stone coping. Pointed-arch window openings to nave. Cut-stone sills. Red brick block-and-start surrounds. Cut-stone hood mouldings over. Pointed-arch traceried (five-light) window to chancel (three-light to flanking bays to nave). Cut-sandstone surround. Lancet-arch openings to remainder (including to tower and spire), with some grouped in paired or tripartite arrangement. Cut-stone chamfered surrounds with hood mouldings over. Fixed-pane windows to all openings, including stained glass windows (louvered timber panels to top stage to tower). Pointed-arch door openings. Cut-stone surrounds (some with hood mouldings over). Timber panelled doors. Full-height interior open into roof. Carved timber pews. Pointed-arch arcade to nave forming aisles on clustered colonettes having open work frieze over. Timber panelled gallery to first floor to north-west having lancet-arch openings and timber panelled choir/organ gallery over having projecting section to centre. Moulded plaster surrounds to window openings having hood mouldings over. Open timber roof construction. Pointed-arch chancel arch to south-east on clustered colonettes. Decorative plaster ceiling over. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam carpark to part of site. Section of replacement iron railings, c.1960, to boundary.
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