Saint Augustine's Catholic Church

Detached two-bay double-height friary church, built 1824 – 1832, on a T-shaped plan possibly incorporating fabric of earlier church, pre-1820, on site comprising single-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to north-east and to south-west having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porches. Extended, 1858, comprising single-bay double-height chancel and apse to south-east on an elliptical plan (forming cruciform plan overall) with single-bay four-storey cut-sandstone entrance tower added to north-west on a square plan. Restored, 1947. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan with clay ridge tiles, copper-clad vents to ridge, cut-stone coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves. Flat roofs to porches not visible behind parapets. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Unpainted fine roughcast walls to nave, to transepts, and to porches with cut-stone date stones/plaques, and moulded cornices to parapets to porches having blocking courses over. Coursed squared sandstone walls to tower with pointed-arch recessed panel to first stage having cut-sandstone voussoirs and containing cut-stone plaques, cut-stone plaques to each stage, and moulded cornice to top stage having battlemented parapet over. Pointed-arch window openings to nave and to transepts with cut-limestone chamfered surrounds, and some with cut-sandstone mullions and tracery forming trefoil-headed three-light arrangement with trefoils and quatrefoils over. Fixed-pane leaded stained glass fittings to all openings. Pointed-arch window opening to second stage to tower with cut-stone sill, chamfered surround, cut-sandstone voussoirs, mullions and tracery forming trefoil-headed three-light arrangement with hexafoil over, and fixed-pane fittings. Pointed-arch openings to third and to top (bell) stage to tower with cut-stone sills, chamfered surrounds, voussoirs, 1/1 timber sash windows to third stage, and louvered panel fittings to top (bell) stage. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-sandstone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, voussoirs, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having traceried overlight. Full-height interior with carved timber pews, timber balustraded galleries to first floor to north-west and to transepts on U-shaped plans, decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling, and carved marble fittings to chancel including communion rail, and Gothic-style altar. Set back from line of road in own grounds.(ii) Gateway, c.1860, to north-west comprising pair of cut-sandstone piers with stringcourses, moulded cornice, cut-limestone profiled capping, decorative cast-iron double gates, and sections of cast-iron flanking railings on unpainted rendered plinth.