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Detached ten-bay double-height Catholic church, designed 1951-3; dated 1954; built 1954-5, on a rectangular comprising nine-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east); single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to entrance (west) front. Pitched slate roofs on scissor truss construction; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles with copper Cross finials to apexes, and cast-aluminium rainwater goods on slightly overhanging box eaves with cast-aluminium downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings including reinforced concrete lintels framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having margined square glazing bars. Square-headed window openings (east) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings including reinforced concrete lintels framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having margined square glazing bars centred on leaded stained glass "lozenges". Square-headed door opening (porch) with rendered surround having splayed rebated reveals framing glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed stepped window openings (gable) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings including reinforced concrete lintels framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having margined square glazing bars. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior with panelled choir gallery (west), tiled central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, segmental barrel vaulted coffered ceiling, and segmental-headed chancel arch framing cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (east) with cut-veined white marble communion railings centred on carpeted stepped "predella" supporting cut-veined white marble panelled altar. Set in landscaped grounds with cruciform-detailed rendered panelled piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting mild steel double gates.
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