Church of St Saviours

Church of St Saviours is a church built in 1873-4 by Frederick J and Horace Francis. It is located on Arcadia Street, formerly Northumbria Street. The church is constructed of Flemish bond brown brick with red brick banding and alternate voussoirs to the arches. Portland stone is used for the windows, bellcote, copings, and offsets to the buttresses, with gabled slate roofs.

The church comprises a chancel with a south chapel, an aisled nave, and a western narthex. It is designed in the Middle Pointed style. The chancel features a five-light east window with trefoiled lights, cusped circles in the tracery, and a double-gabled roof over the north vestry. The vestry has hoodmoulds over two-light windows and a pointed-arched doorway. The south chapel has offset buttresses and hoodmoulds over a four-light east window, two-light south windows, a pointed-arched west doorway, and a round west window with circular tracery. The nave has a bellcote with a stone spirelet and five-bay lean-tos to the aisles, featuring offset buttresses and hoodmoulds over three-light windows, and quatrefoil clerestory windows. There is a five-light west window with reticulated tracery above the lean-to narthex, which has linked hoodmoulds over lancet windows and pointed-arched south and north doorways.

The interior features polychromatic brickwork. The chancel has two-bay north and south arcades with pointed, chamfered arches set on circular piers, which possess richly-carved foliate capitals and carved foliate corbels supporting a pointed-arched braced roof. A hoodmould with head corbels is above the tall chancel arch, also with richly-carved foliate capitals to engaged shafts. The nave has five-bay arcades with hoodmoulds and carved stops over chamfered pointed arches, again set on circular piers with moulded capitals. A similar pointed-arched roof is supported by carved corbels. A stained glass east window, dating from circa 1880 and by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, is present.

The church is a good example of a town church design, demonstrating a separation of elements in the Puginian tradition.