Church Of St Francis Of Assisi

The Church of St Francis of Assisi is an Anglican church built between 1938 and 1941 by W. A. Harvey and H. G. Wicks. It is constructed from pink sandstone ashlar with pantile and lead roofs. The church is planned with a 7-bay nave, low north and south aisles with porches on the west bays, a choir, a tower over the sanctuary, and an apse. A vestry with an organ chamber above is situated south of the choir, and a Lady Chapel is located on the north side of the north aisle. The architectural style is Early Christian basilican.

The nave and aisles have moulded stone eaves cornices. The low aisles allow for tall round-headed clerestory windows, which are paired at the east end and on the canted west end. The Lady Chapel has a flat roof, and the vestry is canted with a three-light round arch window and small lights under the eaves. The north-west and south-west porches have carved surrounds depicting stylised figures of the twelve Apostles and Christ. The north-east porch features carvings of leaves and flowers. The fine east tower has a tented lead roof with a figure of St Francis of Assisi on the ridge, three and five-light bell openings, integral buttresses on the east corners, and a round apse at the east end with round-headed windows.

Inside, the walls are plastered. There are low, unmoulded plaster round arch arcades with painted intrados, supported by octagonal limestone piers and capitals with volutes. The choir features a distyle gallery with three round arches within a large arch, and a small gallery in the corner with an ogee corbel leading to the tower stairs. The sanctuary has double sedilia with engaged columns and round plastered arches, and round arch clerestory windows in the ceiling cove, with similar windows in the apse. There is a low ashlar screen with tall flanking piers surmounted by kneeling figures, and a crucifix is suspended from the choir roof. The nave and choir have painted roofs, with king-post trusses and curved struts supported on painted corbels. Benches, including choir stalls, remain intact. A limestone font has large moulded ribs that splay out at the top, and the Lady Chapel altar has large consoles.