Church Of St Catherine

The Church of St Catherine is an Anglican church built between 1939 and 1940 by Herbert Luck North. It features whitewashed roughcast walls and an exposed red brick plinth with a course of blue bricks. The roofs are gable-ended and hipped, covered with pantiles.

The church plan includes a nave, chancel, north and south aisles, a west narthex, a tower over the sanctuary, and a vestry on the north side. It is designed in a Scandinavian free Gothic style. The large pantile roof extends over the aisles and continues over the narthex at the west end, which has a rose window in the gable above. The tower features a saddle-back roof and groups of tall thin lancets with hooded triangular heads, along with similar louvres in the gables. The aisles, narthex, and chancel also have groups of lancets, while the east window consists of very tall lancets with an oculus above. There are splayed entrances to the narthex on the north and south sides; the south side has a buttress with tiled weathering, and the north side has the vestry with a hipped roof.

Inside, the church has a whitewashed interior with brick arcades featuring rebated arrises that rise from the piers into high-pointed arches. The chancel arch and the arch to the narthex are similarly designed. The windows have deep splays and pointed rear-arches. The nave has an open scissor-braced common-rafter roof with two tapered chamfer fish-belly tie-beams, all painted white, except for decorated ceilings over the tie-beams and the chancel ceiling. The aisles also have exposed rafter roofs. The church retains its original benches, pulpit, and lectern, along with a piscina with a canopy that matches the windows and a hexagonal font with chamfered corners. The floor is made of buff-coloured tiles, and there are green-painted ledged doors.