Catholic Church Of The Sacred Heart

The Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart is a church built between 1850 and 1852 by J A Hansom. It is constructed of white brick with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church has a six-bay aisled nave, a western bellcote, and an apsidal chancel. The gabled west front includes a trefoil-headed double-leaf door set in a pointed arch, supported by round shafts with plain capitals. This door is flanked by trefoil-cusped single-light windows, with two tall trefoil-cusped lancets and a trefoil above.

To the left of the entrance is an octagonal two-stage staircase turret with narrow square-headed windows, a string course between the stages, a band of trefoils at the top, and a pyramidal roof. To the right, there is a stepped buttress with a gablet. The west windows of the aisles feature two-light trefoil-cusped windows with quatrefoils in the spandrels. The aisle bays are defined by stepped buttresses with gablets, and there are paired trefoil-headed lancets in the aisles. The clerestory has paired quatrefoils, except for a single one in the westernmost bay. The east window of the south aisle has three stepped trefoil-cusped lights with quatrefoils above, while the east window of the north aisle is obscured by the presbytery. The chancel has a string course and five trefoil-cusped windows.

Inside, the church features arcades of pointed arches supported by octagonal piers. The church is aligned north-south, so the points mentioned in the description refer to ecclesiastical orientation rather than cardinal directions.