Church Of St Joseph And St Francis Xavier (Catholic)

The Church of St Joseph and St Francis Xavier is a Roman Catholic church built between 1867 and 1868, designed by George Goldie. It features coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, constructed in the Gothic Revival style. The church has a single nave and chancel with curved apse aisles, a western porch, and a south-western tower.

The south entrance front includes a projecting single-storey lean-to porch with five pointed arches, which contains three traceried windows and single flanking doors. Above this are three tall chamfered lancets and a quatrefoil tracery circular window. To the right is a two-light pointed arch window, while to the left stands the tall slender tower with a square base that rises to an octagonal bell-stage topped with a short octagonal stone spire featuring four lucarnes. The lower stages of the tower have small stair lancets, and the bell-stage has four narrow lancet bell openings. The clerestory has five circular windows on each side with chamfered quatrefoils. The aisles are adorned with pairs of chamfered lancets and alternating buttresses, and there is a projecting vestry to the east with an external gable stack and a circular stair turret topped with a conical lead roof and finial. To the west, there is a projecting boilerhouse with a tall circular stack.

The north apsidal end features three large three-light pointed arch windows with cinquefoil and trefoil tracery. Inside, the nave has a four-bay east arcade and a five-bay west arcade, supported by circular piers and responds with chamfered bases and stiff-leaf capitals, featuring plain, slightly chamfered arches. The north-west bay has panel tracery and a dividing slender pier. The wooden roofs are supported on curved stone corbels. Notable interior elements include a fine ashlar and marble curved reredos and pulpit, with later wooden reredoses in the aisles. The original 19th-century pews remain in the nave, along with some high-quality late 19th-century stained glass. There is also a wooden organ and gallery located to the south.