Roman Catholic Church Of St Elizabeth

The Roman Catholic Church of St Elizabeth was built in 1888 by Pugin and Pugin. It is constructed of rock-faced red sandstone with a red tiled roof. The church comprises a nave on a north-south axis, with an east aisle, a south-east chapel, an apse, a north-east tower, and a north-west baptistery, all designed in the Decorated style.

The north gable end features angle buttresses. At the right-hand end of the gable of the nave is a 2-centred arched doorway with a recessed door and hoodmould, leading to three cusped lancet windows at ground floor. Above this is a carved panel with Gothic lettering “Sancta Elizabetha Ecclesia 1888”, followed by a large traceried four-light window under a hoodmould with figured stops, a gable dripband, and a traceried gable eye. The tower has a doorway similar to that of the nave, a window above with two cusped lights, two further cusped lancets, and a tall belfry window of two louvred cinquefoil lights with a quatrefoil in the head. A Lombard frieze runs between the buttresses, topped by a pyramidal roof swept over bracketed eaves.

The east side of the church features a buttressed four-bay aisle with square-headed windows of one, three, three, and two cusped lights. The nave has gablets containing wide arched traceried windows. A square porch and the chapel are located at the south end of the aisle. The chapel's south gable displays a memorial to Eliza Margaret De Biaudos Scarisbrick, Marchioness de Casteja (d.1878), with a carved tripartite canopy and monumental slab enclosed by fleur-de-lys iron railings. The apse is five-sided, with a window of two cinquefoil lights in each side; the central window is raised into a gablet, all beneath hoodmoulds with figured stops. The west side has tall two-light windows with mouchette tracery. A five-sided baptistery with cusped lancets is on the north end, and a large gabled sacristy on the south end.

Inside, a gallery is present at the north end, spanning wide depressed arches to form an interior porch or narthex. The aisle arcade features moulded arches on octagonal columns. The roof is arch-braced with Y-struts to the principal rafters, and the sanctuary roof is arch-braced with stencilled panels. The chapel is divided into two equal bays by a moulded stone arch, its ceiling painted blue with stencilled gold stars. On the west side of the nave is a large, elaborately carved wooden pulpit on a carved pedestal, approached by elaborately carved stairs; these are likely of Belgian origin, dating from the mid-to-later 17th century.