Church Of St Barnabas

The Church of St Barnabas is a parish church built in 1935 to serve the Raffles Housing Estate. It was designed by John Seely and Paul Paget and constructed by Laing and Sons. The church is made of concrete with brick infill and has a rendered finish, topped with a Westmorland slate roof. The structure includes a nave, chancel, southeast and northeast vestries and offices, a narthex to the west, and a south tower placed transeptally.

The main body of the church features three semicircular reinforced concrete arches that support the roof, which are expressed on the outside by gabled buttresses, each containing a tall round-headed window. The brick walls are pierced by two sets of three single square-headed lancets, and there are two three-light dormers set in a Mansard-type roof. The tower has a pyramidal cap, a louvred bell-opening at eaves level, and a single round-headed lancet above an exposed sandstone door surround. The roof level of the nave is maintained over the chancel, which has lower lean-to aisles containing offices with paired lancets and two flying buttresses, as well as round-headed clerestory windows. The east end features raised brickwork with a cross containing a roundel. The west end of the nave has a round-headed window above the narthex, with a central doorway flanked by roundels set in recessed round-headed panels.

Inside, the ceiling between the concrete arches is canted and features panelled boards, with principal windows set into the arches. There are three arched recesses to the west. The chancel includes plaster canopies over the bishop's throne, sedilia, and clergy seats, which contain general and direct lighting. Local sandstone lectern and pulpit in the form of ambones flank the chancel opening. The church has a complete set of contemporary furnishings, including oak choir stalls with curved ends and movable seats in the nave, along with a velvet dorsal curtain.