Catholic Church Of The English Martyrs

The Catholic Church of the English Martyrs is a church built in 1849, constructed from ashlar sandstone with a rubble limestone rear and a slate roof. The building features one to four bays, with the first bay projecting and gabled, and it is raised over a schoolroom. The church is oriented north-south, following ritual orientation.

The exterior includes gabled pilasters at the corners and between the bays, a tall plinth with an offset above pairs of lancet windows in the basement, and a chamfered sill band beneath the tall lancets that illuminate the main body of the church. The gable of bay one has a round-arched door, and within the plinth, there is a lancet window and a vesica. A pointed-arched door on the right side is accessed by a flight of steps, flanked by an ashlar side wall and two lancet openings below. The eaves cornice features shaped kneelers and moulded gable copings, with a roll-finial atop the front gable. The east end has taller buttresses that flank a stepped three-light window beneath a louvred vesica, and the center of the gable is raised as a parapet with a carved apex finial.

Inside, there is a west gallery supported by decorative queen-post trusses adorned with Gothic Revival panels, arched braces with mouchettes, and pendants. The church was originally built as a Congregational Church with a schoolroom located underneath.