Roman Catholic Church Of Our Lady And All Saints

The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and All Saints is a church built between 1863 and 1864 by Edward Welby Pugin, with a tower added by G.H. Cox in 1886. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features steeply pitched Welsh slate roofs, accented with bands of grey tiles and stone coping at the gable ends, topped with stone crosses. The church has an 8-bay nave, chancel, north and south aisles, a vestry located at the angle of the north aisle and chancel, and a tower at the west end of the north aisle. The church is aligned north-south and is designed in the Gothic style with Geometric window tracery.

The exterior includes north and south aisles with 2-light Geometric tracery windows, buttresses between, and a tall nave with cusped circular clerestory windows. The chancel features tall and narrow north and south windows with Geometric tracery, a large rose window on the east, and the vestry in the angle with the north aisle. The northwest tower, located at the northeast corner, is three stages high, with the second stage containing pairs of very narrow lancets, and the top stage featuring louvred bell-openings, large turrets with pinnacles, and a short spire with small lucarnes. The pinnacles and spire are topped with iron finials.

Inside, the church has a lofty interior with a broad 8-bay nave and clerestory, along with 7-bay arcades featuring moulded 2-centred arches supported by thin alternating grey and pink polished granite piers with block capitals and tall plain bases. The nave roof is elaborately designed with arch scissor-braces, high collars, and collars for the common-rafters, while the aisle roofs are arch-braced. The chancel roof includes painted panels. Notable interior features include a richly carved stone reredos from 1875, a wooden gallery in the 8th bay at the west end with an organ, a pulpit, intact seating, and stained glass windows from 1875 by Hardman.