Saint Brigid's Catholic Church — Suncroft

Detached six-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1905-6, with lancet-arch openings, single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to north-east and single-bay double-height lower apse to north-west gable end on a polygonal plan having two-bay single-storey sacristy projection to south-west. Gable-ended roof with slate (gabled to porch; polygonal to apse; gable-ended to sacristy projection). Crested clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone chimney stack to sacristy projection. Cut-stone coping to gables with cross finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods on corbelled eaves band. Rock-faced snecked limestone walls. Buttressed piers to south-east gable end with pinnacles. Cut-stone dressings including quoins and buttresses to north-east and to south-west. Lancet-arch window openings. Cut-stone chamfered sills and block-and-start surrounds (with hood moulding over to south-east). Fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows (2/2 timber sash windows to sacristy projection). Rose window to gable to south east in cut-stone surround having polished red stone colonettes. Cut-stone sill course. Pointed-arch hood moulding over. Trefoil-headed door opening to south-east. Pointed-arch hood moulding over. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Pointed-arch door opening to porch. Cut-stone block-and-start surround. Hood moulding over. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Full-height interior open into roof. Glazed timber panelled internal porch to south-east. Polychromatic fired clay tiled floor. Timber pews. Carved timber confessionals. Timber panelled gallery to first floor to south-east. Exposed timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels with tongue-and-groove timber panels. Lancet-arch chancel arch on clustered colonettes. Replacement altar fittings, c.1980. Exposed timber roof construction over. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt to front.