Former Junior Seminary Chapel of St Aloysius at St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw

Materials: coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; roof of graduated Lakeland slates with stone gable copings. Gothic Revival style.

Plan: nave with south transept; Lady chapel on east of transept.

Exterior: high pointed arched windows, 2-light in nave, 4-light in transept and 5-light in east front, under dripmoulds in buttressed bays; diagonal buttresses to transept, set-back buttresses at east and west ends. Sill string, stepped to large windows and to 6-foil Lady chapel window. Gablets on buttresses and on kneelers of steeply-pitched corbelled roof. Stone cross finials.

Interior: painted plaster with long wall-posts on angel corbels supporting arch-braced panelled roof with stencil decoration by Earley of Dublin. 2-centred north entrance and organ arches. Much rich decoration, including painted moulded dado rail with naturalistic leaf stops; painted decoration of Lady chapel circa 1890 by Rev. Henry Gillow. Caen stone high altar with marble shafts, alabaster tabernacle arch and exposition throne; high-relief carved roundels in altar and scenes from life of St. Aloysius in reredos. Seated statue of Our Lady, the Mother of Jesus, by Karl Hoffmann on north side of altar. West bay of north wall contains altar of St. Innocent, 1882 by Charles Hadfield with marble front and shafts, and Caen stone crocketed canopies, now missing its plated reliquary doors. Lady chapel has richly-carved altar designed by Canon Scruton. Organ painted in Gothic style by Bevington. C19 stained glass includes some by Hardman.