Church Of The Ascension

The Church of the Ascension is an Anglican church built around 1870. It is constructed of brick and features a Welsh slate roof. The church has a nave with two aisles, a chancel with transept chapels, and an apsidal eastern end that is slightly taller than the nave. The design is in the Early English style, characterized by strong and muscular details.

On the exterior, there is a western narthex with arched doorways on either side and stepped arcading made of high tumbled brick that mirrors the lean-to roof's line. The main entrance is through a gabled porch that projects from the narthex, flanked by lancet windows. Above this, there is blind arcading that is corbelled out, and a large rose window with simplified tracery, enhanced by decorative brickwork at the apex of the gable. The lean-to aisles are divided into four bays by buttresses, featuring alternating triple lancets and paired plate traceried windows above. The western walls have plate tracery with minimally expressed hoodmoulds. There is a blocked window in the lean-to porch on the southeast side.

A low clerestory runs along the top, divided by pilasters, with each bay containing a series of five squat lancet windows. The apsidal end of the chancel is marked by buttresses that support squat shafts with enriched stone capitals between paired windows, which are also divided by shafts. A tiled sill-band displays texts. The eaves cornice is ornately moulded in brick, and the slate roof features scalloped bands and a cross finial. The transepts have single and paired windows, with a lunette in the eastern walls adorned with terracotta dressings. The southern wall features paired lancets, a stone rose window with simplified tracery in the gable apex, and decorative brick banding and corbelling. The interior has not been inspected.