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Attached six-bay double-height single-cell Catholic chapel, built 1838-40; consecrated 1840, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, 1952, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof with roll moulded cut-granite ridge tiles, lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite kneelers including lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gable to entrance (west) front on cut-granite kneelers with granite ashlar buttressed gabled triple bellcote to apex framing cast-bronze bells, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Tuck pointed coursed rubble "Old Red Sandstone" walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with stepped buttresses including clasping stepped buttresses to corners having cut-granite "slated" coping. Paired lancet window openings with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. "Rose Window" to chancel (east), cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch opposing door openings (west), cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded double doors. Interior including vestibule (west); pointed-arch door opening into nave with quatrefoil-detailed carved timber surround framing glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior open into roof with timber panelled choir gallery (west) supporting timber panelled pipe organ, granite flagged central aisle between finial-topped timber panelled pews, paired Gothic-style timber stations between frosted glass windows, cut-granite stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1952, with stepped "predella" supporting Gothic-style high altar below stained glass "Rose Window" (----), and exposed round arch braced collared timber roof construction on engaged colonettes on foliated-detailed corbels with pointed-arch wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling on timber cornice. Set in landscaped grounds.
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