Church Of Our Lady

The Church of Our Lady is a Roman Catholic church built in 1856 by architects I. & C. Hansom. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone and features a steep slate roof. The building consists of a seven-bay nave and a one-bay chancel, both covered with a continuous steep slate roof. The bays are divided by buttresses with offsets. The nave windows have two pointed lights topped with a quatrefoil, while the chancel is illuminated by two narrow windows with cusped lights and a trefoil design. The entrance is located in the sixth bay from the east, featuring a doorway with a moulded surround and a two-centred head. The east wall includes a window with geometrical tracery, and the west wall is supported by diagonal buttresses, with a central buttress that partly supports an open octagonal bellcote on a square base topped with an octagonal pointed stone cap. Inside, there is a west gallery made of pitch pine that houses an organ, a chancel arch with two chamfered orders, a carved stone reredos, and an open timber roof featuring very slender scissor-braced trusses. The glass in the east window is believed to be by Hardman.