Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart

Detached five-bay double-height Catholic church, c.1835, on a cruciform plan comprising three-bay double-height nave with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to west, single-bay double-height canted bays extending into single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting bays to north and to south, and single-bay double-height lower chancel to east. Part refenestrated, c.1990. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone coping to gables having rendered gabled bellcote to apex to west on advanced apron with lancet recessed panel and consoles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat roofs to porch and to projecting bays to north and to south not visible behind parapets. Unpainted fine roughcast walls with rendered stringcourses to porch and to projecting bays having shallow battlemented parapets over. Lancet window openings to nave, chancel, and to projecting bays (in bipartite arrangement to east elevation of transepts; pointed-arch window openings to transepts in bipartite arrangement) with stone sills. 6/6 timber sash windows with decorative tracery to lights (8/8 timber sash windows to bipartite openings to east elevation of transepts; 2/4 timber sash windows to transepts) with some replacement fixed-pane uPVC windows, c.1990. Square-headed door opening to porch with replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors, c.1990. Full-height interior open into roof with carved timber pews, cut-stone memorials, some stained glass panels, pointed-arch chancel arch with Gothic-style altar furniture, and open timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels. Set back from road in own grounds.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1835 - present.(iii) Gateway, built 1898, to east comprising pair of painted rendered piers with rendered profiled capping, decorative wrought iron double gates, decorative wrought iron flanking pedestrian gate to south with painted rendered outer pier having rendered profiled capping, and sections of painted rendered flanking boundary walls to perimeter of site having rendered coping.