Church Of St Gabriel

The Church of St Gabriel is a parish church dating to 1912, designed by CA Clayton Greene. It is constructed of snecked, tooled limestone with an ashlar plinth and stone dressings, and has a roof of graduated Lakeland slate with stone copings. The church includes an aisled chancel with an undercroft to the east, a north vestry with an organ chamber above, an aisled nave with transepts, and a west vestibule and porch. The design is an Art Nouveau modification of the Tudor style.

The east gable features a large eight-light window with two principal mullions high in the wall, above four deep-set three-light stone mullioned windows. Octagonal stair turrets are situated at the sides, featuring a set-back at the level of the east window sill, a string at eaves level, and squat turrets above with blind traceried panels. The north and south elevations have two-light mullioned windows, plain below and with tracery under straight heads above. The crossing behind the transepts has paired north and south windows, and the transepts contain large north and south windows, alongside smaller traceried windows in their east walls. Smaller windows are also found in the nave aisles, with four-centred-arched doors at the west ends. The west porch is single-story and features a four-centred arch with a hollow chamfered surround, stiff-leaf ornament, and a wide overlight, flanked by paired two-light windows with ogee heads. A high eight-light window is positioned on the west side. The buttresses are octagonal at the east and west aisles, shallow and paired to the transepts and aisles, angled to the crossing, and tall and shallow to the chancel above. All tracery is curvilinear between full-height mullions, and all gables and parapets have hollow-moulded coping.

The interior demonstrates a possible influence from St Andrew's Church in Roker, with the use of large nave piers allowing aisles to be situated beneath. A very wide nave, large crossing piers, and roof trusses of kingpost and tie beam construction, with raised cruck shapes between, supported by stone corbels, are present. A panelled sanctuary features high-quality oak furnishings. Smaller rooms with half-glazed screens flank the west entrance, and a west passage contains panelled doors with patterned glazed strips of bevelled glass, as well as a groined ceiling. Stained glass is present in the east window, designed by Marion D Grant. A watercolour hanging in the west passage illustrates the church as originally planned, depicting an octagonal crossing tower with a needle spire.