Catholic Church Of St Benet'S And Adjoining Priest'S House

The Catholic Church of St Benet's and its adjoining priest's house date to circa 1843 and were designed by a partner of Weightman and Hadfield of Sheffield. The church is built of limestone ashlar with machine-tiled roofs. It is in the Decorated style and consists of a three-bay north/south axis nave, an east porch, a sanctus bellcote, and a single-bay chancel. The exterior features a chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses with offsets, and windows with hood-moulds and returns. A three-light window is located at the north end, and there are two south-facing and three west-facing windows of two lights. The gabled east porch has end parapets and buttresses, a pointed doorway of two chamfered orders, a cusped lancet in the apex of the gable, and a lancet in each side elevation. Inside the porch is a cusped stoup, and there is a pointed doorway on the east side. The sanctus bellcote has side buttresses, a cross finial, and a pointed archway holding a single bell. The chancel has diagonal south-end buttresses, a three-light south window, and a cusped pointed niche above the window, with an angel corbel at the base and a crocketted hoodmould on human head corbels. A cusped lancet is located in the east elevation. The interior includes a pointed chancel arch with semi-octagonal responds, an arch-braced collar truss roof, and original fittings such as a reredos with traceried arcading, a cusped pointed piscina, three-bay sedilia, an octagonal stone font, and a three-sided stone pulpit. There is also a west organ gallery with an organ featuring cusped open panels, slender pinnacled buttresses, and an embattled cornice. The priest’s house adjoins the west elevation and is connected to the church by a smaller parallel wing. The roof detail matches that of the church, with two large ashlar ridge stacks and a large east-side stack. The house is two stories high, with mullioned windows featuring pointed lights and square heads. The south gable end has a ground floor hipped roof canted bay window and a three-light first floor window. A three-light ground floor window and a two-light first floor window are on the south end of the linking wing. The main entrance, located in the angle between the house and linking wing, is recessed within a flat-roofed porch with a parapet and a chamfered doorway with half-glazed double doors. A single-storey service wing is situated at the rear of the north gable end.