Church Of St Godric

The Church of St Godric is a Roman Catholic parish church built in 1864 by Edward Welby Pugin, with the tower added between 1909 and 1910 by Pugin and Pugin. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone, featuring an ashlar plinth and dressings, although the roof has been destroyed by fire. The church is designed in the Gothic style and includes a west tower, a nave, a chancel, a north aisle, and an east apse.

The four-stage tower has a north door with nine panels and a mouchette-traceried overlight set within a two-centred moulded arch. Above this, there are tall transomed windows with two lights featuring dagger tracery, flanked by two tall slits. The top stage of the tower has paired belfry openings with cusping beneath trefoil top lights. The tower is supported by set-back buttresses with offsets, and there is a niche in the north-west angle that holds a statue of a saint. The exterior features floor strings and top arcaded corbelling leading to a pierced parapet adorned with large corner pinnacles. The paired aisle windows are set beneath cinquefoil clerestory lights, with the two easternmost windows being larger and placed under gables topped with elaborate cross finials. Similar gables are found over the two-light windows of the three-sided apse, and the linking moulded coping includes gargoyles. There is a stepped continuous sill string.

Inside, the church features plaster walls, pink granite columns, and sandstone ashlar dressings. The five-bay arcade consists of two-centred arches on round columns with ballflower capitals and dripmoulds. The roof is missing, and the interior has been damaged by fire at the time of the survey.