Church Of St Bede And Attached Presbytery

The Church of St. Bede and the attached presbytery is a Roman Catholic chapel built in 1823 by Thomas Burgess. It is constructed from coursed sandstone and features a slate roof, with a modern pinnacled bellcote on the chapel and one chimney on the presbytery. The chapel has a simple three-bay rectangular plan and is entered at the east end, while the presbytery, which is attached at the west end, is slightly narrower and lower.

The chapel includes a plinth, a low sill-band, and a band at the pediment of the gable. Its side walls are supported by two simple buttresses and contain three round-headed windows. The east front features a round-headed doorway with a fanlight that has radiating glazing bars, and double doors that are now protected by a bracketed canopy. Above this doorway, at the first floor, are two small lunettes with radiating glazing bars flanking a stone table with the incised lettering: "Gloria et Honor Deo in Saecula Saeculorum Amen 1823."

Inside, the chapel consists of a single cell with three plain pilasters on each side, a coved cornice, and a flat ceiling. There is an east gallery supported by four slim iron columns from around 1850, which houses an organ. The sanctuary is set in an unusual recessed rectangular bay with an elliptical arch that rises from flanking Ionic columns. The inner walls of the sanctuary are elaborately decorated with a blind arcade of fluted pilasters and illuminated by a skylight. Attached to the west wall in the body of the church are four-seated sedilia, which are topped by an unusual round-headed screen arcade of Ionic columns with rounded arches supporting a dentilled cornice. On each side, there is a doorway leading into the presbytery, situated under a detached dentilled cornice.

The presbytery features a symmetrical gabled front with three bays and 2½ storeys, including a string course at the pediment of the gable. The central round-headed doorway has a fanlight with radiating glazing bars and is now sheltered by a porch roof that extends over the bay windows added in 1907. The presbytery also includes three tall flat floor windows and two attic-level windows, all with altered glazing. A single-storey service extension is attached to the left wall, while the right return wall has a two-storey flat-roofed extension from 1907.