Roman Catholic Church Of St Gregory

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Gregory was built between 1814 and 1815, enlarged in 1831, and had its facade completed in 1845. It features pebble-dashed brick with a slate roof, ashlar aisles, and a north front. The church includes a nave, aisles, a narthex, and a four-stage tower with a belfry. The north front, designed in Italian Renaissance style, has a single-storey pedimented narthex divided into three bays by panelled pilasters. The center of the pediment is broken by a second storey, which has corner pilasters and a central coved niche containing a statue of Christ carrying the cross. This section forms the second stage of the tower, which culminates in a belfry featuring four aedicules topped by a belvedere with an ogee cap and a cross. The ground floor of the facade includes a round-headed entrance with voussoirs, Tuscan columns, and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars, while each flanking bay has a coved niche with a statue. Each aisle's north end has a round-headed doorway with Tuscan columns. The nave contains five lunettes, and the aisles have square tripartite windows, except for the south end, which features three stepped round-headed lights. The convex south end of the nave displays three blind round-headed arches with an impost band. Inside, the church has a wide nave and a concave sanctuary in one vessel, with engaged giant Corinthian columns and blind round-headed panels between them. The tops of similar Corinthian columns between the nave's lunettes rise to a moulded frieze and cornice adorned with modillions. The ceiling is flat and panelled, and a gallery at the north end is supported by single and coupled Tuscan columns, featuring an entablature with egg-and-dart decoration and a similarly decorated panelled parapet.