Catholic Church of St David

The Catholic Church of St David is a 20th-century building designed based on the traditional layout of a longitudinal plan with an aisled nave, transepts, and sanctuary, but re-imagined in a modern style and using contemporary materials. The exterior is faced with rustic orange Leicestershire brick on a steel-reinforced masonry pier construction, with steel and timber copper-clad roofs. The large, rectangular building includes a nave with aisles that project slightly at the east and west ends, forming a lean-to canopy roof over the entrance and a lean-to passage to the east. Shallow transept-like projections are present to the north and south, with a band of narrow windows on the north side and a grid of taller windows on the south. Single-storey lean-to extensions with copper roofs extend from the north and south nave walls, separated by tall windows. A campanile is advanced at the southwest corner, topped with a single bronze bell and a large aluminium cross (originally fibreglass). The recessed west front features a lean-to copper-clad canopy over the entrance and tall windows stretching from the roof to the eaves, forming angles with the advanced aisles, with an additional entrance in the west end of the north aisle.

Inside, the nave is broad and lofty, with aisles defined by brick-clad piers that support the roof. These piers create alternating wide and narrow bays; the narrow bays have high windows, while the wider bays open into shallow arched recesses. Two of these originally housed confessional boxes, but the one on the south side is now the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. A gallery is located at the west end, accessed by a spiral staircase in the northwest corner. A former baptistry in the southwest corner now serves as a repository. The sanctuary is dramatically top-lit by a glazed lantern, flanked by transept-like chapels dedicated to Our Lady and St David, featuring abstract stained glass dalle de verre windows by Charles Norris. Shallow arches in the east walls of these transepts open into narrow bays with tall windows, providing concealed side-lighting to the sanctuary. Behind these are a sacristy and flower room, linked by a passage behind the sanctuary.

Twelve windows by Jonah Jones are distributed throughout the church; eight are mounted in frames in front of existing windows to either side of the nave and at the west end, while four are mounted in lightboxes on the internal walls to the east and west. These windows are mostly abstract compositions with strong primary colours, although pairs on either side of the sanctuary incorporate star and flower emblems.