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Freestanding Gothic Revival gable-fronted double-height Roman Catholic church, built 1915, with three-bay entrance gable flanked by single-storey entrances to aisles having side gables terminating seven-bay side aisles, gabled sacristry terminating south aisle at altar end, boiler house to south side of west gable. Pitched slate roof to nave with crested ridge tiles, gables having cut-stone barges on ogee kneelers. Cross finial to west gable, recent rendered bellcote to east gable. Lean-to slate roof to side aisles, pitched slate roofs to entrances flanking main front having altered oversailing eaves. Corbel tables supporting cast-iron guttering of nave and aisles. Roughcast rendered walls over stone plinth course. Ashlar dressing to openings. Main gable divided by three ashlar stone bands, entrance doorway with flanking lancets, date stone over door below graduated triple lancet, bellcote supported on a corbelled blind arch. Gable sides with stone quoins over buttresses with ashlar weatherings. Pointed arch main entrance, flatter two-centred heads to aisle entrances. Timber sheeted doors with historic ironwork. Paired lancets to side elevations of aisles, sloping sill and paired hood mouldings with label stops. Larger lancet pair in gable to south-west aisle bay. North and south side gables to aisle entrances have Y-tracery under pointed hood mouldings. Three-light plate tracery to chancel gable set in pointed arch recess with a plain roundel to head and hood moulding. Dressed stone ventilation lancet to gable head set in stone banding. Stone quoins to gable corners. Interior with timber wagon-vaulted roof having wall posts springing from corbels in spandrels between aisle arches. Full-height nave arcade resting on ashlar columns with tall bases having annulus, and capitals having small decorative arch motif below large square-profile abacus. Filleted roll-moulding to arris of arcade. Altar end of nave arcade terminates in large corbel respond. Engaged columns to chancel arch with octagonal abacus. Lean-to roofs to aisles terminating in side altar to south and baptistery to north. Reredos and historic altar in front of window triplet with later altar, lectern, and ambo outside chancel arch facing congregation. Aisle windows have two-centred head to rear arch. Timber gallery over entrance bay into nave. Pattern tiled floor. Timber bench seats. Metal gates having ball-topped finials and decorative ogee arches set in low rendered walls with profiled cappings and glass lantern spheres standing on decorative metal uprights.
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