Catholic Church of St Joseph

Loadbearing pale brown brick walls with a hyperbolic paraboloid roof with a felt cover, anchored by concrete buttresses at two corners. Square plan, set out as a diamond with baptistery and sanctuary aligned on a diagonal axis. The fully glazed octagonal baptistery projecting from the sliced-off liturgical W corner dominates the approach to the building. Entrance to the L of the baptistry, double timber doors with shallow triangular head. Clerestory band below eaves on all four walls; three tall and narrow windows in each westward wall, single lights in the eastward walls. Projecting full height fin-like window bays to either side of the sanctuary (its only external expression). Aluminium windows, uPVC fascias (replaced, originally timber).

Interior with plain white walls, quarry tiled floor. Timber tongue and groove ceilings. Entrance into narthex with meeting room attached (the former Lady chapel) along one side of nave; sacristies along the corresponding side beyond the baptistery. Large open plan worship area, the diagonal orientation and unsupported roof creating a sense of spaciousness. Sanctuary up one step and aligned on the diagonal. Large altar of Trevor grey granite lit by concealed vertical window strips. Rainbow coloured dalle de verre stained glass windows by Peter Morton of Pilkington Glass. Panes above the tabernacle show the mysteries of the Rosary and the Angelus bell. Baptistry with octagonal stone font and large dalle de verre window by Jonah Jones depicting the Baptism of Christ.