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Detached eight-bay double-height Catholic church, designed 1852; dated 1859, dedicated 1859, comprising six-bay double-height nave opening into two-bay double-height chancel (east) with single-bay two-stage tower (south-west) on a square plan. Renovated, 1915-6, with sanctuary refitted. "Improved", 1949. Renovated, 1989-90, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, copper-covered "slated" coping to gables on scroll kneelers with cast-iron Cross finials to apexes, rooflights to chancel (east), and cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves boards on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed coursed hammered rubble stone walls on cement rendered chamfered plinth with repointed tooled cut-stone stepped buttresses including repointed tooled cut-stone diagonal stepped buttresses to corners having tooled cut-limestone "slated" coping; cement rendered surface finish to entrance (west) front; part repointed tuck pointed snecked rock faced rubble stone walls to tower on benchmark-inscribed drag edged tooled cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with tooled cut-stone clasping stepped buttresses to corners having tooled cut-limestone "slated" coping, and cut-limestone "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice supporting parapet with lichen-covered cut-limestone obelisk pinnacles to corners. Lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass pierced "lozenges". Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) with cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement to "cheeks" with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Rounded triangular window opening to entrance (west) front with cut-limestone crow stepped surround having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings to tower (first stage) with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Roundels (bell stage) with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh panels. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight; full-height interior open into roof with quatrefoil-detailed timber panelled choir gallery (west) on a half-octagonal plan on octagonal posts, carpeted central aisle between timber pews, paired Gothic-style timber memorial stations (undated) between stained glass memorial windows (undated), exposed scissor truss timber roof construction with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1989-90, with cut-veined white marble Gothic-style altar (1916) below stained glass memorial "East Window" (undated). Set in landscaped grounds.
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