Church At Pastures Hospital

This is a private church, built around 1870 for the trustees of Pastures Hospital. It is constructed of rock-faced sandstone with sandstone dressings, featuring a plinth and a chamfered eaves band. The roof is slate, with stone coped gables, moulded kneelers, crested ridge tiles, louvre ridge vents, and iron ridge crosses to all gables. The church comprises a three-bay nave with transepts and a lower chancel, alongside a north-west tower and a north vestry.

The west elevation of the nave has a large, central four-light window with geometric tracery, set within a pointed window surround with a hoodmould and rock-faced relieving arch. Low buttresses flank the window, with double-chamfered lancets beyond. The two-stage tower is recessed to the north, and features a two-light window with reticulated tracery, a pointed chamfered surround, a relieving arch, and bell openings with louvres. Above the bell openings is a cornice with ball-flower decoration, surmounted by a broached stone spire. A moulded pointed doorcase, nook shafts, and diagonal buttresses are also present on the north elevation of the tower.

To the east of the nave is a polygonal bay with cusped lancets on the sides, one of which is blocked and decorated with a relief cross. Adjacent to this is a single three-light window with a four-centred arch, cusped lights, and pierced spandrels. The transept has a similar three-light tracery window and clasping buttresses at each corner. The north vestry, attached to the east, possesses a Caernarvon arched door on its north side and a double-chamfered lancet on its east side, with a matching lancet in the chancel. The east window is a three-light design with cusped geometric tracery. The south chancel elevation has a single double-chamfered lancet, the south transept a similar design to the northern one, and the south nave elevation includes three three-light windows with four-centred arches, cusped lights, and pierced spandrels, each with a buttress to the west.

The interior showcases a wide, hammer beam roof in the nave and transepts, while the chancel roof is panelled. The north transept contains a stone, octagonal pulpit with cusped panelled sides, accessible via an ogee headed doorcase. The east window contains contemporary stained glass, with other windows featuring coloured glass. Original pews remain, though much of the original furniture is now missing.