Catholic Church of the Assumption

Detached six-bay single- and two-storey Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1889-99, comprising six-bay double-height nave with shallow chancel to west, and six-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles to north and to south having three-bay single-storey sacristy to south-west. Pitched slate roof (lean-to to side aisles; pitched to sacristy) with profiled clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limestone ashlar eaves. Irregular coursed rock-faced squared limestone walls with limestone ashlar dressings including quoins to gabled stepped buttresses (clasping corner buttresses to side aisles). Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone chamfered sills, block-and start surrounds having chamfered reveals, cut-limestone voussoirs over, Y-mullions forming bipartite lancet arrangement with quatrefoils to arches, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Cinquefoil window openings to nave forming clere-storey in cut-limestone surrounds having crow-stepped aprons, cut-limestone voussoirs over, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Rose window to gable to east on carved (moulded) cut-limestone stringcourse with cut-limestone crow-stepped apron, hood moulding over supporting cut-limestone voussoirs, colonette mullions separating trefoil-headed lights centred on quatrefoil, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening to west (chancel) with cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals, cut-limestone voussoirs over, Y-mullions forming five-part lancet arrangement, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Paired shouldered square-headed door openings in pointed-arch recess with cut-limestone block-and-start surround, hood moulding over supporting cut-limestone voussoirs, engaged colonette reveals supporting profiled archivolt, timber panelled doors, and decorative overpanel incorporating carved cinquefoil panel. Full-height interior open into roof with glazed timber panelled internal porch incorporating double doors, timber gallery over, timber pews, pointed-arch arcade to side aisles on polished pink granite pillars having carved foliate capitals supporting moulded archivolts having hood mouldings over, moulded course to clere-storey, exposed timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels having diagonal timber panelled ceiling, pointed-arch chancel arch having clustered colonette archivolt, Gothic-style altar furniture, and four-centre-arched groin vaulted ceiling having plasterwork ribs centred on rosettes. Set back from road with broken coursed rock-faced squared limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site having battlemented coping, rock-faced limestone ashlar piers having gabled capping, and iron double gates.