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Attached cruciform-plan Gothic Revival Catholic church, erected c.1857-65, extended and remodelled c.1903-11. Comprises seven-bay nave, apse to west end and full-height transepts with bell tower to east end. Pitched slate roofs with trefoil pierced parapet to upper level and ashlar limestone parapet to side aisles. Cast-iron ridge cresting and cast-iron rainwater goods, some profiled. Hipped slate roof to apse and flat-roofed porch to south transept. Octagonal-plan spire to bell tower having cross finial. Square-plan three-stage bell tower with snecked limestone walls with corner buttresses. Clock to east elevation of tower. Ashlar limestone walls to front (east) elevation. Snecked limestone walls with stepped buttresses to nave, transepts and apse. Pointed arch openings with ashlar limestone block-and-start reveals, sloping limestone sills, limestone hood mouldings and single-, twin- and triple-light stained-glass windows with trefoil and quatrefoil windows over. Stained-glass rose windows to gable walls of north and south transepts. Deep-set pointed arch door opening to front elevation having carved limestone surround, polished granite colonnettes with foliate limestone capitals, carved limestone tympanum with mandorla, shouldered-arch openings with timber battened doors featuring decorative wrought-iron strap hinges. Pointed arch door openings to side aisles, with limestone hood moulding, limestone colonnettes, and double-leaf timber battened doors with wrought-iron strap hinges. Interior comprising six-bay arcade with clustered columns having floriate capitals, clerestorey and with vaulted ceiling. Ornately sculpted marble reredos set within pointed arcaded apse. Contains stained-glass windows including 'Adoration of the Sacred Heart' by Harry Clarke, and rose window by Lobin of Tours. Set within its own grounds bounded to northeast and southeast by wrought-iron railings on cut limestone plinth with matching vehicular and pedestrian gates. Mid-nineteenth-century Celtic Revival High Cross to front to east.
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