Church Of St Gabriel And Hall Attached

The Church of St Gabriel and the attached hall is a parish church built in 1899 by F. W. Rich, with the south transept and chapel added in 1931 by H.L. Hicks. It is constructed from snecked sandstone, featuring an ashlar plinth and dressings, and has roofs made of graduated Lakeland slate with overlapping stone gable copings. The church is designed in a cruciform layout with an aisled nave, north and south porches, and a north-east tower. The architectural style is Free Gothic.

The south porch has a moulded and shafted two-centred arch flanked by buttresses beneath a steep gable. The aisles feature paired lancet windows, while the clerestory has four-light Perpendicular-style windows. The transept gables also have four-light windows, and there are large Decorated windows on the west and east sides. The north porches are battlemented. The tower consists of three tall stages, with a north door, slit windows on the second stage, blind-traceried arcading above, and paired two-light belfry openings. It has a frieze with Gothic lettering and a corbel table that supports pierced battlements, along with octagonal corner turrets at the west end and cross finials.

Inside, the church features painted plaster above a boarded dado and ashlar dressings. The hammer-beam roof is supported by pilasters and shafted corbels. The three-bay arcades have nearly-round two-centred arches on columns with vine-carved capitals, and there are taller enriched arches leading to the Lady chapel and tower organ loft. A large carved triptych reredos with niches and statues is present, along with a fresco on the east wall and a rood beam. An alabaster war memorial on the north wall includes enamel plaques of angels Michael and Gabriel. The north transept contains a brass memorial to Walter Baston, the builder of the church and church warden, who died in 1913.

The attached church hall, located to the north-east, is built from similar materials and is a single storey with four bays. It features stone-mullioned windows under steeply-gabled dormers that break the eaves, and has a steeply-pitched roof.