Roman Catholic Church Of St Wilfrid

The Roman Catholic Church of St Wilfrid, built in 1842 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, is a notable example of Early English style architecture. Constructed from red brick in English bond with sandstone dressings and a slate roof, the church features a nave with north and south aisles, confessionals attached to the south aisle, an uncompleted north-west tower, and a chancel with a north chapel.

The six-bay nave includes small lancet clerestory windows, while the west end showcases a two-centred arched doorway with a double-chamfered surround and two lancet windows above. The aisles are supported by pilaster buttresses and narrow lancets. The south aisle features a gabled porch at the second bay with a double-chamfered two-centred arched doorway, along with three gabled confessionals, each having two small lancets and a quatrefoil above. At the west end of the north aisle, the base of the intended tower includes a two-centred arched doorway flanked by two pairs of shafts, adorned with two orders of deeply undercut double roll-moulding and a hoodmould with figured stops, along with a niche above the doorway and a pyramidal roof.

The two-bay chancel has a triple-lancet east window with a linked hoodmould and a wheel window above it. Inside, the church is plastered and painted in light grey shades. The aisle arcades consist of tall double-chamfered two-centred arches on low octagonal piers, while the chancel arch features semi-octagonal responds and a triple chamfer. The nave roof is supported by elegantly slender collared queen-post trusses with unusual linking purlins that are arch-braced from these posts, and arch braces from wall-posts to tie-beams, all with painted small chamfers. A statue of the Virgin is located to the left of the chancel arch, complete with a tall crocketed canopy, and the pulpit is integrated with the pier on the right side, accessible through a doorway. The west gallery houses a tall narrow organ in the center, and there are sedilia in the chancel, along with good stained glass in the east windows.