Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Therese

This is a Roman Catholic church, originally four cottages dating from the 16th century. Later used as a slaughterhouse, it was converted to a place of worship in 1934 and remodelled in a classical style between 1954 and 1956 by Ellery Anderson Roiser and Falconer. The building is constructed primarily from local limestone, with some brick patching, and has a slate roof and a timber cupola.

The church forms part of a row of buildings on Friday Street. It is a high, single-story building with stone-mullioned windows featuring plate glazing, beneath a shallow-pitched, hipped roof. The main elevation has three bays; the left and centre bays each have a large, three-light window. The right-hand bay is classical in style, featuring slightly projecting quoins and a central entrance door set beneath a chamfered stone lintel. Above the entrance is an oculus window, flanked by a swept parapet with half-columns on carved brackets, framing a niche, and surmounted by an octagonal cupola for the belfry, on a scrolling base, with a gilt orb and cross at its apex. The rear of the building shows that the left-hand bay has been rebuilt in brick, with a brick outshut for a sacristy. The remainder is constructed from roughly squared and coursed limestone, with two tiers of stone-mullioned windows, the upper tier having hood moulds. A later 20th-century timber casement window is present in the outshut.

The interior has whitewashed walls and simple furnishings. The entrance leads to a narthex, with a gallery supported by Roman Doric columns brought from Stancombe Park. Behind this is a pair of wrought-iron gates with scrolls and stylized flowers, and matching grilles on either side. A high, arched recess that previously housed the high altar now contains the tabernacle, which is set on a columnar plinth. The altar itself is constructed from roughly-squared limestone and is now set slightly forward of the recess. A roughly-hewn stone font stands to one side. A flight of closed-string stairs with plain stick balusters and ramped handrails leads to the gallery. A moulded stone window seat is positioned at the half-landing, providing a view of the oculus. The gallery front features a deep moulding and a balustrade of short stick balusters. Above the gallery is a 17th or 18th-century chestnut cartouche incorporating angel heads and a "Maria" monogram, acquired by Sir Henry Howard in The Hague. The king-post roof structure is partially exposed.