Our Lady And St Cuthbert'S Roman Catholic Church, To Rear Of Number 64

Our Lady and St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic Church, located to the rear of number 64, was built in 1829 and altered and extended around 1880. The church is constructed of dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof adorned with ornate terracotta ridge tiles, two square louvred ventilators, and an iron cross finial. It has a simple rectangular plan with a canted east end and a small porch on the south side. The original building is in the Gothick style, with later additions in the Gothic Revival style.

The west and north walls are blind, built against adjacent buildings. The canted east end includes three three-light pointed arch windows with Geometrical tracery and a continuous cill band. The south wall features a single pointed arched glazing bar sash with Gothick glazing, followed by three similar pointed arch windows with wooden Y-tracery. Above the porch is a small cross mullion window, and to the east is a narrow lancet. The projecting porch has a south-west doorway and a short three-light pointed arch Geometrical tracery window on the south side.

Inside, the church has a moulded and pointed chancel arch with triple shaft responds and traceried wooden panels in the spandrels. A gilded and painted wooden rood is suspended from the chancel arch. The nave has boarded wooden roofs with diamond pattern panelling, and the chancel contains a built-in former altarpiece painting associated with the exile of King Charles X of France from 1830. Wooden Gothick tracery arches are applied to the north and east walls, which may be a re-sited original screen or arcade. There is a wooden west gallery with a Gothic panel front, wooden pews, and a Minton tile floor. The raised chancel features a marble altar and lectern, along with ornate dado panelling.

This church is an important example of the plain and simple type of church built by Catholics immediately after the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, later extended and redecorated in the Gothic Revival style.