Church Of St Mary, Lowe House

The Church of St Mary, Lowe House is a Catholic church built between 1924 and 1930, designed by C.B. Powell. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church has a nave with aisles, a west tower with flanking porches, a crossing dome, a round transept, and chancel apses. There is also a south war memorial chapel and a north rounded chapel apse. The architectural style combines Gothic and Byzantine elements.

The tower includes setback buttresses and a gabled west entrance with a round arch made up of three orders, featuring a mosaic tympanum. The entrance doors are adorned with decorative iron strapwork. The windows consist of stepped triple round-headed lancets set under a relieving arch. The tower has three lancet bell openings between the buttresses, which rise above the parapet, and corner turrets that are embattled. The aisles have paired lancets and flying buttresses that support a clerestory with embattled pinnacles. The apses feature paired lancets and copper roofs, while the copper dome rests on an embattled octagonal drum and has lancets beneath a Lombard frieze. The south chapel includes a gabled porch and a round apse, with a vestry located to the south.

Inside, the four-bay nave has round-arched arcades supported by polished granite round columns with Byzantine capitals. The nave features a brick vault with stone ribs on corbelled wall shafts, and there is a round timber gallery in front of the round tower arch. The crossing has a round drum on pendentives with paired openings beneath diapered tympana. The chancel includes an iron screen and openings to the ambulatory, while the transepts have small east chapels. A 20th-century crossing altar is situated on a dais, along with a font. The church serves as an important local landmark and is noted for its rich decoration in the Byzantine style, combined with Gothic exterior details.