Church Of St Cuthbert And Presbytery Attached

The Church of St Cuthbert and the attached presbytery is a Roman Catholic church built between 1826 and 1827, with a west tower and a north-east Lady Chapel added in 1869. It was designed by Ignatius Bonomi. The church is constructed of worn sandstone ashlar, while the presbytery is made of snecked sandstone, both featuring slate roofs and rubble rear walls.

Architecturally, the church is in the Perpendicular style, comprising a nave, a tower, a short sanctuary, and the northern Lady Chapel. The tower has three stepped stages, with a hollow-chamfered and moulded Tudor-arched west door. Above the door are large flat-headed, traceried windows and small single bell openings at the top stage. The tower is topped with a corbelled parapet and a pyramidal roof, which includes a painted finial and vane.

The nave has four bays with stepped buttress bay divisions and west angle buttresses. The north side is plain, featuring an entrance in the third bay, while the south side has paired, tall, pointed, traceried, transomed windows, except for the westernmost bay, which has a slit window below the gallery. All windows are under hoodmoulds. The projecting sanctuary bay on the south side is filled with a large four-light, square-headed, traceried transomed window, and there is a pent extruded porch below with Gothic glazed windows. The parapet with roll mouldings continues above the three-storeyed, two-bay presbytery to the south-east, which features chamfered cross casements on the ground and first floors, along with a projecting two-storey canted bay on the south front.

Inside the church, there is a west gallery and the sanctuary is panelled with traceried Gothic woodwork, including pierced parapets for the side boxes, a rood, and a reredos. The Lady Chapel has a stencilled dado and an east window designed by H.M. Bennett of Newcastle. Notable interior features include a carved marble mensa and a carved stone font, with the church being repewed in the 20th century. The fourth bay from the east on the south side of the nave contains a four-light window by Harry Clarke. The interior of the presbytery has not been inspected but likely contains an older core.