Catholic Church of Sacred Heart — Ross Road

Detached seven-bay single- and two-storey Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1904, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier church, 1834, on site comprising five-bay double-height nave with five-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to north-east and to south-west, single-bay double-height transepts to north-east and to south-west, single-bay double-height lower chancel to south-east having single-bay single-storey over raised basement flanking bays, and single-bay three-stage tower, dated 1867, to north-west on a square plan having polygonal broach spire. Pitched slate roofs (lean-to to side aisles) behind parapets with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Limestone ashlar polygonal broach spire to tower on moulded profiled cut-limestone band with cut-limestone dressings including quoins. Broken coursed rock-faced snecked limestone walls with cut-limestone dressings including piers to nave and to side aisles, stepped buttresses to chancel, and battlemented parapets on moulded stringcourses. Broken coursed snecked limestone walls to tower with cut-limestone dressings including stringcourses, bands, and stepped clasping corner buttresses. Paired cinquefoil window openings to nave forming clere-storey with cut-stone surrounds having squared limestone voussoirs. Paired trefoil-headed window openings to side aisles in pointed-arch frames having cut-limestone sill course, and cut-stone block-and-start surrounds having squared limestone voussoirs. Pointed-arch window openings to transepts and to chancel with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having hood mouldings over, lancet-arch openings (three-light to transepts; five-light to chancel) with cut-stone mullions, and cut-stone tracery to arches. Trefoil-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement to bays flanking chancel on cut-stone aprons having coat-of-arms panels, cut-stone columnar mullions, trefoil panels, and hood mouldings over. Fixed-pane leaded stained glass windows to all openings. Paired elongated trefoil-headed window openings to second stage to tower with cut-stone block-and-start surrounds, hood mouldings over supporting squared limestone and sandstone voussoirs, and fixed-pane windows. Trefoil-headed openings in bipartite arrangement to top (bell) stage with cut-stone block-and-start surrounds, hood mouldings over supporting squared limestone and sandstone voussoirs, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to tower with cut-stone chamfered surround having hood moulding over supporting squared limestone and sandstone voussoirs, timber panelled double doors, and cut-stone date stone/plaque (1867) over having moulded surround extending into triangular panel containing coat-of-arms. Full-height interior open into roof with decorative clay tile to central aisle, carved timber pews, pointed-arch arcades to side aisles on pillars having clustered colonettes and moulded reveals, trefoil panelled gallery to first floor to north-west on shallow segmental arch, exposed timber roof construction on moulded consoles, pointed-arch chancel arch on clustered colonettes, decorative Gothic-style reredos, and exposed timber roof construction to chancel. Set back from road in own grounds with tarmacadam forecourt.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1835 – present.