Saint Mary's Catholic Church

Free-standing limestone-built gable-fronted Roman Catholic Church with Gothic Revival detailing, dated 1839, and altered 1859, having five-bay nave, slight projection to gable-front topped by bell-cote, with gabled porch to front. Statue of Virgin Mary to niche to gable-front projection. Pitched slates roof with half-round cast-iron gutters, stone raking copings, and stone gable apex cross. Exposed coursed rubble walls with rusticated sandstone quoins. Altar gable rendered. Pointed-arch window openings with splayed stone sills, chamfered surrounds and hood-mouldings, and iron windows frames of c.1935. Double-leaf timber door with decorative hinges of 1890s. No openings to altar gable.Interior has flat panelled ceiling, chancel screen with thin compound piers having foliated capitals. Blind arcade detail to altar wall. Pine pews and balcony of twentieth-century date. Set back from road in churchyard enclosed by coursed rubble limestone walls with dressed square-plan piers with caps, and having double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate set to rusticated ashlar sandstone square-plan piers with caps and plinths and coursed rubble quadrant walls.

This Catholic church building is a simple rectangular box, given interest by the advanced bellcote and porch. Its tall hood-moulded windows are well made and display good masonry skills. The interior is enhanced by the blind arcade detailing and the compound piers.