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Freestanding Roman Catholic Church, dated 1931, having cruciform plan with three-stage bell tower to north-west corner of nave, U-plan baptistery to west end, sacristy to south-east corner of nave, and lean-to porch to re-entrant corner at north-east. Pitched natural slate roof with cast-iron ogee-profile gutter set on bullnose stone corbels, with round-profile downpipes, and having cut-stone copings to gables. Coursed hammer-dressed snecked limestone walls. Gabled shallow projections to east and west walls of north transept. Round-headed stained-glass windows to north, south and east elevations. Altar window, depicting Crucifixion, by Harry Clarke Studios. Triangular-headed stained-glass windows to west gable. Dressed limestone sills and surrounds to all window openings. Square-headed trio of windows to sacristy. Romanesque-style entrance door to tower having engaged carved limestone colonnettes, chevron-faced voussoirs and hood-moulding. Church interior has marbled tiled altar with backdrop to gable comprising timber doorway feature of diminishing round arches, clustered columns between nave and transepts supporting round-headed arcade. Entrance to baptistry from nave is through Romanesque archway leading to annex beyond which has similar Romanesque archway at baptistry itself. Ornamented wrought-iron gates at second archway. Timber arch-brace truss roof to nave supported on bull nose corbels. Triple-light round-headed lights to east window. Church set in own grounds with mature planting to south-east, with random rubble limestone boundary wall and decorative metal gates.
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