Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Catholic church built between 1890 and 1891 by the architectural firm Pugin & Pugin. It is designed in the Free Gothic style and constructed from red brick with a slate roof. The church features a southwest tower, a five-bay nave with side aisles, and an apsidal chancel. The tower includes reducing angle buttresses, geometrical windows at the lower level, and lancets flanking niches with statues at the clerestorey level. There are also paired lancets at the nave roof level and large louvred lancets at the bell stage. The roof is pyramidal with overhanging eaves and mid-slope equilateral lucarnes.

The entrance to the nave is through a narthex, which has a ledged and battened door in a stone-dressed Gothic-headed gabled porch featuring kneelers, copings, and a cross finial. The nave gable and chancel have geometrical windows, while the aisles feature perpendicular windows and quatrefoils at the clerestorey, all set in stone frames. The church has half-brick-thick inter-window piers, a stone sill band, moulded eaves cornices, gable coping, lead hips on the chancel, a crested tile ridge, and cross finials.

Inside, octagonal stone columns support the aisle arcades. The main altar is adorned with a mainly gilded stone reredos featuring Gothic elements such as daggers, crockets, and brattishing, along with a baldacchino on marble shafts covering the tabernacle. Stone side altars flank the main altar and are positioned in front of the aisles, separated from the nave by a marble communion rail decorated with religious motifs. The ceilings throughout are panelled, with arched trusses in the chancel and nave supported by carved stone corbels. Moulded plaster stations of the cross are also present.