Catholic Church of the Assumption — Owning

Detached six-bay double-height Catholic Church, built 1798, on a cruciform plan on site of earlier thatched Catholic chapel, c.1725, comprising two-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south, and single-bay double-height shallow chancel to east extending into two-bay two-storey sacristy to east. Repaired, 1812. Part refenestrated. Pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone finials to apexes (cross finial to west; urn finial to north) having bellcote to apex to south (with round-headed aperture in unpainted rendered surround having cast-iron bell, and urn finial surmounting archivolt), rendered bargeboards to gables, slightly sproketed eaves, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls with cut-limestone date stone/plaque. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows having tracery to overlights (Y-mullion to west forming bipartite pointed-arch arrangement with fixed-pane timber fittings having leaded stained glass panels). Pointed-arch door opening with tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Square-headed door openings to transepts with timber panelled doors. Square-headed window openings to sacristy with cut-limestone sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Full-height interior with timber pews, tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting having carved timber dado, shallow concave galleries to first floor on pillars with dentilated moulded course supporting panelled plinth having balustraded parapet over, and diagonal tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling on carved timber cornice. Set back from line of road in own grounds with pair of limestone ashlar panelled piers having friezes, gabled panelled capping having finials, iron double gates, and painted roughcast boundary wall to perimeter of site having chamfered coping. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1798-present.