Church Of St Mark

The Church of St Mark is a church built between 1891 and 1892 by the architects Heaton and Ralph of Wigan. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble and features slate roofs, designed in an Early English style with some Arts-and-Crafts motifs.

The church has a plan that includes a nave with north and south aisles, a south porch, a south transept, a south-east tower, and a chancel with a north vestry. The four-bay nave is accentuated by pilasters and has pairs of cusped lancets in the clerestory. A prominent feature is the large five-light west window, which includes cusped lights and multifoil tracery. The low lean-to aisles are adorned with mullioned windows that have two and three round-headed lights. The south aisle features a gabled porch at the first bay, which has a moulded segmental-pointed arched doorway and ridged gable coping topped with an apex cross. Additionally, there is a short transept at the fourth bay with two cusped lancets and a rose window that has circular trefoil tracery.

The squat three-stage tower includes a polygonal south-east stair-turret leading up to the second stage, with one-light cusped windows on the first and second stages, pairs of cusped lancet belfry windows, and an embattled parapet. The two-bay chancel features two-centred arched two-light windows on the south side and a large two-centred arched five-light east window with tracery. The interior has not been inspected.