Saint Mary's Catholic Church — Main Street

Detached six-bay double-height Catholic church, begun 1849; unfinished 1854; completed 1859; dedicated 1863, on a cruciform plan originally eight-bay double-height on a rectangular plan comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into four-bay double-height flat-roofed side aisles with single-bay (two-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height chancel to crossing (east); single-bay three-stage tower (south-west) on a square plan supporting octagonal spire. Extended, 1888. "Improved", 1895. Extended, 1923-4, producing present composition. Renovated, 1967, with sanctuary reordered. Undergoing "restoration", 2010-1. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior open into roof undergoing "restoration", 2010-1, with Gothic-style timber panelled organ gallery (west) on a half-octagonal plan supporting timber panelled pipe organ centred on stained glass memorial "West Window" (1930), carpeted central aisle between timber pews, pointed-arch arcades on dragged limestone ashlar pillars with hood mouldings on portrait label stops, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1967, with cut-veined white marble Classical-style altar below stained glass memorial "East Window" (1883), exposed scissor truss timber roof construction on dragged cut-limestone "Cavetto" corbels with wind braced diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling in carved timber frame on arcaded frieze on chevron- or saw tooth-detailed cornice, pair of cut-white marble wall monuments (ob. 1874; 1872), and replacement timber stations to side aisles between stained glass memorial windows (1925; "restored" 1989). Set back from street in landscaped grounds with cast-iron chamfered piers to perimeter having capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed cast-iron double gates.