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Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1847-59, on a cruciform plan comprising five-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to north-east and to south-west, single-bay double-height chancel to south-east having four-bay single-storey flanking bays (including sacristy projection), and single-bay four-stage entrance tower to north-west on a square plan having single-bay single-storey lean-to flanking porches. Gable-ended roofs on a cruciform plan with slate (gable-ended to flanking ranges to south-east; pyramidal to tower; lean-to to flanking porches). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack to flanking range. Cut-stone coping to gables with cross finials to apexes. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Rendered walls. Unpainted. Cut-stone dressings including quoins to corners. Rendered dressings including stepped buttresses (clasping to tower) with cut-stone coping. Cut-stone string/sill course to nave. Cut-stone stringcourses to each stage to tower. Lancet-arch window openings to nave. Cut-stone sill course. Cut-stone hood mouldings over. Traceried (three-light) windows to transepts. Cut-stone sills. Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds. Traceried (five-light) window to chancel to south-east. Cut-stone sills. Cut-stone block-and-start surround with lancet-arch relieving arch over having cut-stone voussoirs. Fixed-pane stained glass windows to all openings. Trefoil-headed window openings to flanking ranges. Stone sills and surrounds. Fixed-pane windows. Lancet-arch window openings to tower (paired to top stage). Cut-stone chamfered surrounds. Cut-stone hood mouldings over. Diamond-leaded fixed-pane windows to second and third stages. Louvered fittings to top stage. Pointed-arch door openings. Cut-stone chamfered surrounds with hood mouldings over. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors with decorative overlights. Full-height interior open into roof. Carved timber pews. Carved timber confessional boxes. Moulded plaster surrounds to openings. Stained glass windows. Timber panelled gallery to first floor to north-west on pillars. Exposed timber roof construction on corbels. Carved marble Gothic-style reredos to chancel. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt to front.Gateway, c.1855, to north-west comprising pair of open work Gothic-style cast-iron piers having quatrefoil motifs, castellated capping, decorative finials and decorative cast-iron double gates.
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