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Freestanding gable-fronted Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1883, with eight-bay side elevations to nave with side aisles and projecting gabled porches, two-bay transepts, half-octagonal apse, sacristy to southeast, side chapel to northeast, and three-stage tower and spire to entrance front. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge cresting. Tower has sculpted pinnacles and gargoyles and ashlar limestone spire. Rock-faced cut limestone walls elsewhere with stepped buttresses, ashlar limestone string courses, gutter brackets and alternating ashlar and rock-faced dressings to openings. Pointed-arch traceried window over entrance doorway, with stained glass. Round windows to clerestory with multifoil insets, lancet windows to side aisles with double lancets to front ends, and triple lancets to transept gables. Timber panelled doors in carved limestone pointed order archway with foliate capitals, divided by trumeau and with sculpted tympanum. Side porches have openings with sidelights and timber battened double-leaf doors in carved limestone surrounds. Interior has colonnades of marble piers to aisles with vegetal capitals and sculpted heads to hood stops and paintings to spandrels. Ornate apse with engaged columns and ribs to painted ceiling, and stained-glass windows. Site boundary has carved limestone piers with metal cross finials to entrance, and ornate cast-iron railings and gates, and dressed limestone walls. Graveyard to site.
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