Saint Lachtain's Catholic Church — Chapel Street

Detached five-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, dated 1844, on site of earlier Catholic chapel, pre-1840, with single-bay three-stage gabled projecting higher entrance 'tower' to west on a square plan, and single-bay double-height lower chancel to east on a half-octagonal plan having two-bay single-storey sacristy to north-east. Renovated, 2004. Pitched slate roofs (half-octagonal to chancel) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables having decorative cross finial to apex to west, gabled bellcote to apex to east (having lancet aperture, and cut-limestone coping to gable), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves having iron brackets. Tooled limestone ashlar walls with cut-limestone dressings to west including stepped clasping buttresses, moulded courses to each stage (some on corbel tables), cut-stone shields to gable flanking pointed-arch recessed central panel, corbel tables to side elevations supporting parapets having gablets, pointed-arch recesses to upper levels to flanking bays on moulded tables having colonette reveals with canopies over, and cut-limestone piers to upper level to nave on cut-limestone stringcourse forming square-headed recesses with corbel detailing. Pointed-arch window openings (in tripartite arrangement to second stage to 'tower'; in tripartite arrangement to top (bell) stage having raised central opening) with moulded sill courses, cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals (with colonette detailing to second stage to 'tower' supporting hood mouldings; containing bipartite pointed-arch arrangement to central opening to top stage with colonette surround having hexafoil over), and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels with louvered panel fittings to top (bell) stage to 'tower'. Pointed-arch door opening to tower (incorporating paired square-headed door openings) with carved surround, moulded reveals, timber panelled doors, timber panelled overpanel, and pointed-arch gabled recessed flanking stoups having moulded tables. Pointed-arch door openings flanking tower with chamfered reveals, and timber panelled doors. Square-headed window openings to sacristy (pointed-arch window openings to side elevations) with cut-limestone sills, chamfered reveals, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Full-height interior open into roof renovated, 2004, with timber pews, timber panelled gallery to first floor to west, coffered ceiling, and pointed-arch chancel arch having chamfered reveals. Set back from line of road with rock-faced limestone ashlar plinth boundary wall having cut-limestone coping.