Church Of St Francis

The Church of St Francis is a church built in 1938 by Robert Potter. It features English bond brick with stone dressings and has concrete and asphalt roofs. The building has a rectangular plan with a west entrance, a south-west tower, low aisles to the nave, and an apsidal east Lady Chapel. The east end is apsidal with a continuous band of windows at the top, and tall three-light mullioned windows with delicate iron ogee tracery are found to the east of the six-bay nave, which has tall lancet windows set in raised and shaped architraves. The low flat-roofed aisles continue with square returns around the east apse, featuring stone-mullioned windows and doorways with raised brick jambs and stone canopies at the north-east and south-east porches. The tower has a plain stone south doorway, similar to the west door, set below a tall lancet that continues as a projecting cross. The belfry windows are grid-like, with stone mullions and louvres. The west end has a low-pitched gable to the parapet and features a tall three-light mullioned window with delicate iron ogee tracery above a projecting stone doorway with a canopy and rounded jambs, flanked by low three-light windows.

Inside, the concrete roof has a grid pattern with coloured panels. Stained glass panels are located above the cross, framed by engaged rounded piers in the east Lady Chapel, which is raised above the parish room and separated from the nave by a balcony with Art Deco railings and ramped angled handrails. There is also a balcony at the west for the organ loft. Notable fittings include the altar, a turned balustrade for the communion rail, preachers' desks, and a fine tub font with a spiralled stem.