Church Of St Mark

The Church of St Mark is a church built between 1848 and 1849, with a chancel added in the late 19th century. At the time of the 1990 survey, it was being converted for office use. Designed by C.W. Orford, this church is a Commissioners' church. It is constructed from dressed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs.

The apsed chancel includes gabled projections for the vestry and organ loft, while the nave has gabled aisles and a west steeple. The church is designed in the Early English style, characterized by shallow offset buttresses and coped gables adorned with crosses. The chancel has three cusped lancet windows, and the projections feature two-light plate tracery windows along with gableted east windows. A trefoil window is located in the east gable of the nave.

The six-bay aisles are fitted with lancet windows that have splayed reveals and hood moulds. Both the north and south gabled porches have pointed entrances and lateral buttresses. The three-stage tower includes a plinth, a foundation stone on the south side, and angle buttresses. The west entrance features a triple-chamfered arch, a south lancet, and additional entrances. The second stage of the tower has lancet windows, while the top stage is adorned with blind arcading, pilaster buttresses, and a corbel table. It also has two-light louvred plate-tracery bell openings, gableted clock faces, and a broach spire with decorative beasts at the angles and lucarnes.

Inside, the church features arcades supported by thin piers that alternate between octagonal and quatrefoil shapes. The Church of St Mark serves as an important landmark, particularly for its prominent position at the end of Darlington Street from Queen Square.