Church of St Mary of the Angels R.C.

The Church of St Mary of the Angels is a Roman Catholic church built in the late 12th century French style. It is constructed of roughly dressed Pennant sandstone of varying rectangular or square sizes, laid in parallel courses, with sharply cut Bath stone ashlar dressings. The church includes a nave, side aisles, a Chapel of the Sacred Heart at the east end of the north aisle, a Chapel of St. Anne at the east end of the south aisle, and a north-west tower.

The west entrance front features a tall gabled central bay rising to the apex of the nave. This bay contains a tall round-headed arch, almost full height, with a round-headed Romanesque doorway of three orders and recessed paired doors on the ground floor, and a tall round-headed window above. A corbel table and arcading are positioned between the entrance arch and the windows. Flanking the central bay are narrower sections with parapets, featuring rounded-headed openings, single and paired, with arcading at the top level. A gabled priests' doorway is incorporated into a two-story wing to the right. The side walls of the nave have triple clerestory windows within large semi-circular arches, with strip pilasters between, a corbel table, and a steeply pitched roof. The north aisle has single light windows with strip pilasters between and paired stone bands. The south aisle is largely hidden, and the east gable wall is not visible.

The tall north-west tower, part of the original design but built later, has four stages, with a projecting stair turret on the west wall. The ground stage has a small apse with three slit windows facing Kings Road and two single light windows to Talbot Road. The tower has clasping corner buttresses and a central strip buttress, both extending to full height, with bands between stages at sill levels. The first stage has paired round-headed lights, the second stage has two tall strip lights, and the belfry has paired louvred openings, topped by a castellated parapet.

The nave has three and a half bays, with a further east bay serving as the sanctuary and a further west half-bay as a triple arched narthex with an organ gallery above. The nave arcade consists of bays with paired round-headed arches, each with a central column and a waterleaf capital. Above the arcade are three round-headed clerestory windows. The east Sanctuary wall features a round-headed tripartite reredos of marble, with three round-headed windows in the wall above. The sanctuary is covered by a boarded tunnel-vault roof. Each bay of the north aisle has a single round-headed window and a timber lean-to roof. The south aisle is windowless and contains a range of confessionals.