Church Of The Nazarene And Adjoining Boundary Wall And Railing

The Church of the Nazarene, originally a Catholic Apostolic church and later an Evangelical church, was built around 1885, with alterations in the late 20th century. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof, featuring a side wall stack. The Gothic Revival design includes an apsidal chancel, a vestry, a nave with aisles, and two west towers, one topped with a spire.

The external features include a plinth, quoins, and a coped west gable. The chancel has a staggered triple lancet window to the east, with two smaller lancets on each side. A gabled vestry is located to the north. The buttressed nave has four lancet windows on each side. A projecting bay to the north-west includes angle buttresses, one with a spire pinnacle and coped parapet, and a lancet with a hoodmould. The west gable features a graduated triple lancet and, beneath it, a double chamfered doorway with double doors and a hoodmould, now sheltered by a late 20th-century glazed canopy. One square tower, divided into three stages with a crenellated parapet, has a lancet window to the west on its lower stage and smaller lancets on its upper stages. To the left of this tower is a lancet window, and to the right is another square tower, also divided into three stages, topped with an octagonal broach spire, featuring buttresses, string courses, a lancet to the west on the lower stage, and a quatrefoil window on the second stage.

The interior features a chamfered chancel arch with half-round responds, flanked by pointed arched doors on either side. The chancel has a sillband and a plaster vaulted ceiling with a ribbed apse. The nave has four-bay arcades with octagonal and round columns and wooden arches with traceried spandrels, supporting an arch-braced roof with collars. Two west bays have been enclosed by a late 20th-century screen to create a mezzanine level. Original fittings include traceried wooden stalls, pews, desks with canopies, and an octagonal wooden pulpit, all dating back to the 19th century; there is no stained glass or memorials.

Outside the church, at the west end, a boundary wall constructed of coursed squared stone has chamfered ashlar coping and a wrought-iron railing. The central steps have been renewed.