Catholic Church of Christ the King, including forecourt walls, gate and gate piers

Church, Arts and Crafts Romanesque style. Set back from Garth Road with a partly-paved forecourt with brick boundary wall, gate and gate piers. Built in pale red brick in Flemish bond, pantile roof set on deep eaves with tiled kneelers. Narrow round headed windows, clear glazing with small rectangular panes. Sloping buttresses to sides and porch. Comprises a wide aisle-less nave, W porch, sanctuary and flat roofed sacristies set down below main roof at the E end.

W front set back from Garth Road, projecting porch with pitched roof, triple ordered round arched doorway. Pairs of windows either side, above a stone crucifix (after Eric Gill) in relief and with the inscription REGNAVIT A LIGNO DEVS (God has reigned from a tree). Buttresses to front corners of the porch. Sides of 4-bays with paired windows to first bay and triple windows to rest. Buttresses between each bay. Paired windows to sacristies and higher level paired windows to either side of the sanctuary. Main E wall blind. Further flat roofed extension at E end with boarded door in S wall and single windows in stepped E wall.

Narrow entrance porch leads to timber vestibule with part glazed doors to each side. Interior comprises a single wide space with wood parquet floor, plain plastered walls and curved ceiling. Baptistery in NW corner, octagonal stone font enclosed by wrought iron railings incorporating riddel posts from the original high altar. E end sanctuary raised by a single step. Original high altar, set back, and modern (2013) forward altar with oak canopy with gilded dove above (original). Stone piscine in wall on S side. Furnishings and woodwork of high quality and include stations of the Cross by Dame Werburg Welch OSB (a disciple of Desmond Chute and Eric Gill), confessional in NW corner, statue of Christ the King over the high altar, both by Charles Victor Gretner, woodcarver of Hereford and created for the earlier chapel. 2 oak statues of St Joseph and the Virgin Mary by Francis Leech flank the sanctuary. Original chairs.