Church Of St Augustine (Of Hippo)

The Church of St Augustine (of Hippo) was built between 1908 and 1909 by the architectural firm Cunliffe of Grimshaw and Cunliffe. It is constructed from snecked sandstone and features a banded slate roof. The church includes a nave, a chancel with transepts (which house the organ and the Lady Chapel), a north-west tower, and a single-storey baptistry at the west end. Designed in the Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style, the three-stage tower has a weathered first stage that serves as the porch, featuring a moulded arched doorway on the north side with Viking-style decorative ironwork, and a window with mouchette tracery on the west side. The dripmould over these elements extends across the baptistry, stepping over windows with 2, 3, and 2 lights. The upper stages of the tower are supported by diagonal buttresses and include 2-tier lancets, 5-light belfry louvres, and a pyramidal roof.

The buttressed three-bay nave has a steeply-pitched roof that sweeps over a low side wall, which contains six 3-light windows that are alternately stepped and flat-headed, with a dripmould above. The south transept features a wheel window, while the chancel has a 4-light east window with Perpendicular tracery in the head, and other windows at the east end are cusped, some being coupled. A low vestry is attached to the north transept.

Inside, the church is finished in ashlar. The nave boasts five elaborately-braced trusses supporting the roof, with a flat ceiling in the centre. At the west end, there is a 2-bay arcade leading to the baptistry. The east end features Tudor-arched openings that flank a wide moulded arch leading to the chancel, which has an arch-braced roof with a flat ceiling in the centre. There is also a wide Tudor-arched and moulded opening to the organ chamber, and a 2-bay arcade leading to the Lady Chapel, which has a 2-tier arch-braced roof truss.