Church of St Philip

The Church of St Philip is a church constructed between 1936 and 1938, designed by Sir Ninian Comper. It is built of red brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings and has Welsh slate roofs. The church is aligned north-west to south-east, with the liturgical east facing south.

The plan incorporates a four-bay aisled nave, a single-bay chancel, a west porch, a choir vestry, and an organ loft.

The east face features a large, six-light curvilinear stone traceried window in the chancel. A brick band is present, alongside a small diamond window and a stone coped gable. To the right is a flat-roofed vestry with four six-pane casements, and a projecting section of church hall of no particular interest.

The north face has diagonal offset brick buttresses and a central buttress, each terminating in a pointed stone pinnacle. Two three-light stone Y-traceried windows flank the central buttress, with a similar window to the right return and in the chancel. A recessed eight-panelled door is located below the window to the right of the central buttress, set within a stone splayed ogee arch and jambs.

The west face is dominated by a two-leaf twelve-panelled door set within a pointed arch with a hoodmould, stone infill to the spandrels. To the left is a corner splayed staircase providing access to the organ loft, with a stone slabbed roof. A low, one-storey choir vestry stands in front, with an eight-panelled two-leaf door on the left and a four-light stone mullioned window under a flat arch on the right, topped by a brick parapet with a moulded stone cornice. The nave has a facing stone coped gable with kneelers. A stone bellcote features a round-arched opening, flanked by Ionic pilasters, a cornice, and a facing stone pediment. The north face mirrors the south, with three similar windows and an eight-panelled two-leaf door leading to the church hall.

The interior of the church includes a four-bay nave with wide aisles. The north and south arcades feature four pointed plaster arches with Composite Corinthian columns supporting plaster mock quadripartite vaulting; further Composite pilasters are present to the walls and corners of the aisles. The east window in the chancel contains stained glass depicting a figure of Christ with angels in the smaller lights. A ciborium spans the chancel, supported by gilded Corinthian columns and a superstructure of round arches, culminating in a quadripartite vault surmounted by a cornice. The decoration is blue and gilt, with painted angels and apostles. Gilded eagles perched above the columns at each corner hold the chains of suspended censers. At the west end, an octagonal font is covered by a gilded and painted "tempietto" colonnaded cover. The organ loft projects into the west bay of the nave, supported on Doric columns, and the organ case is richly decorated with painted holy figures. The ceiling below the organ loft is panelled with painted shields in gilt surrounds.