Church Of The Sacred Heart

The Church of the Sacred Heart is a church built in 1894 by E. Kirby. It is constructed from yellow rock-faced stone with red sandstone dressings and features a slate roof. The building has a high nave with aisles and a polygonal apse, designed in the Geometrical style.

A notable feature is the tall gable front facing Brooke Street, which includes angle buttresses that end in short pinnacles. It has a giant splayed and moulded arch made of red sandstone with four orders. This arch frames a gableted splayed portal that contains coupled trefoil-headed doorways and a spherical triangle at the top featuring three trefoils. Above this, the wall is panelled with decorative coursing. The head of the arch is adorned with a rose window that has a cusped centre, a cross, and is surrounded by eight quatrefoils.

In the first bay, there are large gabled porches with a deep arch and a spherical triangle above, featuring flowing tracery. The clerestory has arched windows with two trefoil lights and a cinquefoil at the top, all set between pilaster strips. Inside, the church features an arcade of polished columns with moulded octagonal caps and two-centred arches, an arch-braced roof, and a high east window that breaks the cornice.