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Detached nine-bay double-height Catholic church, designed 1906; built 1912-3, on a rectangular plan comprising nine-bay double-height nave opening into eight-bay double-height flat-roofed side aisles. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary "improved". Pitched Delabole slate roof abutting flat roofs behind parapets (side aisles), clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone coping to gables with Cross finials to apexes, and concealed rainwater goods retaining rosette-embossed cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered walls on lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with Irish battlemented parapets having lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone coping. Paired cusped lancet window openings with drag edged rock faced hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars (west) or stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels (east). Pointed-arch window opening (east) with dragged cut-limestone interlocking Y-mullions, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front with dragged cut-limestone step threshold, and drag edged dragged hammered limestone block-and-start surround having splayed reveals with hood moulding framing timber boarded double doors. Paired lancet or pointed-arch window openings (gable) with dragged cut-limestone Y-mullions, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch opposing door openings (west), drag edged dragged hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having splayed reveals with hood mouldings framing timber boarded double doors. Interior including vestibule (west) with glazed terracotta tiled floor; pointed segmental-headed arcade centred on glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior with choir gallery (west), carpeted central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, pointed-arch arcades on granite ashlar octagonal pillars, timber boarded pointed barrel vaulted ceiling with carved timber ribs on box cornice on corbels, stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, ----, with Gothic-style reredos (1919) centred on quatrefoil-detailed Gothic-style memorial high altar (1918) below stained glass "East Window" (1914), stepped daises to side altars with Gothic-style altars below stained glass memorial windows (1915), and Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (1915-6). Set in landscaped grounds with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar chamfered piers to perimeter having lichen-covered drag edged dragged cut-limestone "slated" pyramidal capping supporting reclaimed wrought iron double gates.
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