Church Of Our Lady Immaculate

The Church of Our Lady Immaculate is a Catholic church built between 1856 and 1857 by J. Hansom. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church has a seven-bay nave, shallow transepts, and a two-bay chancel. The nave is adorned with two-light windows that have plate tracery, positioned between deep weathered buttresses. The gabled south porch includes diagonal buttresses and a statue in a niche above the entrance. The west front features two-light windows on either side of a buttress that has canted inner angles, forming a stair turret, topped with gargoyles and a short spire with an iron cross. The south transept has diagonal buttresses and a four-light window with Geometrical tracery, while the north transept includes an extension for confessionals and a passage to the presbytery. The chancel has two two-light windows on the south side and a four-light window on the east side. Inside, the roof has panels painted in a 20th-century color scheme, and there is a west gallery supported by braced timber posts. The transepts feature stepped triple segmental-pointed arches on piers with foliate capitals. The chancel arch has continuous mouldings and a hood mould with angel stops, flanked by marble altars and reredoses. The chancel reredos includes gabled traceried panels, cresting, and a central gabled aedicule.