Catholic Church of the Assumption — Abbey Street

Detached five-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, c.1830, on a cruciform plan comprising three-bay double-height nave with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to east, single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south having single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porches and single-bay single-storey sacristy projection to west having single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to south. Refronted, 1921. Gable-ended and hipped roofs (on T-shaped plan to nave and to transepts) with slate (behind battlemented parapet to east). Clay ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves course. Flat-roofed to wing to north-west. Materials not visible. Rendered walls. Ruled and lined. Painted. Rendered dressings to east to nave including stepped clasping buttresses with pinnacles over, moulded rendered stringcourse to gable and battlemented parapet wall having cut-stone coping and cross finial to apex. Cut-stone dressings to porches to transepts including quoins with pinnacles over and coping to gables having cross finials. Cut-stone bell cote to gable to sacristy projection with cast-iron iron bell. Lancet-arch window openings. Stone sills. Moulded rendered hood mouldings over. Fixed-pane stained glass windows. Rose window over entrance bay to east in pointed-arch frame with hood moulding over. Series of quatrefoil openings surrounding octafoil opening in cut-stone medallion with fixed-pane stained glass windows. Pointed-arch door opening to porch to east (square-headed door openings to porches to transepts). Rendered hood moulding over. Diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Full-height interior. Timber pews. Plaster hood mouldings to window openings. Plaster cornice to ceiling. Gothic-style reredos to chancel. Set back from road in own grounds. Gravel forecourt to front. Lawns to sides (north and south) and to rear (west).