Catholic Church of St Joseph

Church, Italian Romanesque. Orientated NW-SE with the liturgical east end to the NW. Handmade facing Coleford red brick in Flemish bond. Stone dressings. Roof of handmade Staffordshire tiles. Round headed windows

Nave and sanctuary, flat roofed narrow aisles to both sides, small chapel to the N side of sanctuary. Liturgical west front with tall bell tower and a wide central triple-ordered arch with doorway set in with decorated stone surround and paired tall windows above set in shallow inner arch. On top of the doorway is a stone carved figure of St Joseph (installed at an unknown date after completion of the church). Aisle ends with tall narrow windows. Bell tower, rectangular plan, 4-stages, pyramidal tiled roof. Ground floor with doorway on NE face under a copper tented canopy, triple window to SE, slit windows to central stages, uppermost stage with triple windows to both long sides and double windows to each short side, the SE side of the tower with a brick balcony. Aisles with 5 pairs of windows. Sanctuary with four windows to either side, placed high. Gable copings and kneelers and gablet cross.

Nave with 5-bay open timber roof with king post and queen post trusses. Gallery with bowed front with narthex inserted underneath. To either side of the nave are 5 tall round headed arches with small slit windows directly above. Narrow passage aisles either side. Aisle windows with clear glazing and coloured borders. Plain arch to sanctuary, up 4-steps and with beamed ceiling. Marble high altar, retable and domed housing for monstrance. 5-sided pulpit, drum font on fluted base, both of Corsham stone. Timber benches to the nave, cast stone Stations of the Cross.