Catholic Church of the Assumption

Detached seven-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1869, on a corner site comprising six-bay double-height nave with single-bay (two-bay deep) double-height lean-to shallow transepts to north and to south, and single-bay double-height lower chancel to west having single-bay single-storey lean-to sacristy to south-west. Pitched slate roofs (lean-to to transepts and to sacristy) with section of polygonal 'fish scale' slate, clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limestone ashlar eaves having corbels. Random squared limestone walls with cut-limestone dressings including quoins to stepped buttresses, and unpainted rendered walls to rear (west) elevations. Paired pointed-arch window openings in square-headed corbelled recesses with quatrefoil over, cut-limestone sills having chamfered reveals, limestone ashlar block-and-start surrounds, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Grouped (five part arrangement) lancet-arch window openings to east with limestone ashlar block-and-start surrounds, cut-limestone voussoirs, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening with limestone ashlar block-and-start surround having moulded reveals, cut-limestone voussoirs, timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers, overlights having leaded stained glass panels, and squared limestone voussoirs over forming pointed-arch relieving arch. Full-height interior open into roof with glazed timber panelled internal porch having timber panelled gallery over, decorative clay tiled floor to aisle, timber pews, tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting, moulded archivolts to window openings, pointed-arch arcades to transepts on cut-stone piers, exposed timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels, decorative cut-stone lectern on a polygonal plan, pointed-arch chancel arch with moulded reveals supporting archivolt resting on Corinthian colonettes, and decorative Gothic-style reredos. Set back from line of road on a corner site.(ii) Gateway, built 1869, to east comprising pair of granite ashlar trefoil panelled piers with moulded necking, pointed-arch capping, wrought iron double gates, wrought iron flanking pedestrian gates, granite ashlar trefoil panelled outer piers with moulded necking, pointed-arch capping, sections of wrought iron railings on granite ashlar plinth leading to granite ashlar trefoil panelled terminating piers having moulded necking, and pointed-arch capping.