Catholic Church of Our Lady Conceived Without Sin — Church Hill

Attached three-stage square-plan tower and spire, dated 1847, attached by glazed corridor to replacement church, built c. 1980. Ribbed limestone spire with carved limestone cross finial, pinnacles to corners and castellated parapet. Ashlar limestone to front elevation and all elevations of third stage, having string course between upper stages, with painted roughcast rendered walls to remaining elevations. Inset date plaque and applied clock to front elevation. Tower openings comprising pointed arch window openings with chamfered surrounds, having stained glass and limestone hood-moulding to second stage. Pointed arch carved limestone door surround with hood-moulding, tympanum having stained-glass octofoil flanked by stained-glass sidelights set over pair of square-headed chamfered door openings with paired timber battened doors having cast-iron door furniture, approached by flight of cut limestone steps. Present, recent, church has curved ten-bay entrance front and four-bay nave elevations, with single-pitched artificial slate roof and roughcast rendered walls.