Church Of St Joseph And Attached Presbytery

The Church of St Joseph and the attached presbytery is a Roman Catholic church built in 1892 by James Sinnott. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and features slate roofs. The church includes a nave, a south porch, north and south transepts, a crossing tower, and an apsidal chancel. The nave has three bays with windows that contain two trefoiled lights under pointed heads with quatrefoils. The porch is gabled, and its outer doorway is chamfered in two orders. The west window consists of four lights under a pointed head with tracery. The crossing tower is topped with a pyramid roof and has two bell openings on each side, each with two lights and pointed heads. The apse is three-sided and features paired trefoiled lancet windows. The north transept has two similar windows in its north wall, along with a rose window above. The south transept also contains a rose window and is linked to the presbytery by a single-storey lean-to. The presbytery has two projecting square bays under hipped roofs, each with sashed windows that lack glazing bars, separated by flat-faced mullions; the ground floor has two-light windows, while the first floor has three-light windows.

Inside, the nave roof is boarded, with trusses that have curved braces to collars supported by corbels. The crossing arches are pointed and chamfered in two orders, with the inner orders springing from semi-octagonal responds on carved corbels. The south transept houses an organ, while the north transept is separated from the crossing by a timber screen. The chancel features alabaster inlay below the window level, with stencil decoration on the reveals. Behind the altar, there is an iron openwork canopy.