Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea including front walls

The Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea was built in 1928 by ASG Butler. It is an example of Arts and Crafts style, combining vernacular elements with influences from East Anglian Dutch and Cape Dutch architecture.

The church is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, and has pantiled roofs. The plan includes a nave, aisles, a southeast nave chapel, a chancel with a north chapel and a south sacristy. The east front, which faces liturgically west, is a prominent three-tier shaped gable. A canted, single-storey porch with a gabled parapet and double plank doors, set under a pointed arch, provides access. Single-light windows are located to the right and left of the porch. Above the porch is a three-light Perpendicular window with a statuary niche containing a carved Virgin and Child. A stone Latin cross sits atop the gable. The aisles have single-light and three-light hollow-chamfered mullioned windows. The east end of the aisles is built of Fletton brick and includes a tall chimney for a stove. Three segmental-headed clerestory windows, featuring leaded lights, are set in the upper walls. The chancel projects slightly from the nave, and includes one two-light Perpendicular window to the north and south, as well as two trefoil-headed west lights.

Inside, the church features four semi-circular arcade arches on chamfered square piers, with round transverse arches to the narrow aisles. An east gallery, supported by chamfered square timber posts and accessible by a staircase on the south side, has a splat baluster balustrade. The nave piers and arcade springings are stone, while the arches and walls are plastered brick. The sanctuary panelling includes an aumbry (south) and credence (north), and the floor is laid with pamments and red-veined black marble. The roof is a tie-beam design with arched braces, king posts and queen struts. A plain hexagonal font is recessed into the south side of the entrance. All three altars are stone, with a large predella panel of coloured marble. Stations of the Cross in plaster, created by M Chantrel in 1924, are attached to the aisle walls. The Sacred Heart chapel has a flat ceiling, while the Chapel of Our Lady has a pitched ceiling and an arched, triangular window in the end wall, divided into three by mullions. Original fixed bench seating is set upon a flat pine floor.

Attached curving brick walls sweep out north and south of the entrance front, incorporating a central raised brick cross. The church is described as an unusual and well-preserved example of a small church from the period.