Catholic Church of St Alban

Church, Norman style. Built of squared coursed brown limestone rubble with a Welsh slate roof. The church is aligned north-west/south-east. Neo-Norman style with a nave, apsed sanctuary and north-east entrance porch. Six bay nave with each bay framed by strip pilasters and containing a small single light arched window; these are modern steel framed in three panes. Doorway with framing Norman colonettes with scalloped capitals. Small single bay chapel projecting to the left of this, from bay 4. Early C20 gabled dormer with lattice casement over the doorway. The apse has five windows with pilasters between and a conical roof

The interior is very plain and is plastered and ceiled throughout. Plain rere-arches to the windows. Open roof supported on principal rafter type trusses with collar beam queen struts and curved feet. Small west gallery with organ. Joinery, including the plain benches, date from a refurbishment in c1958. No early furnishings survive.

Fittings: Coloured ceramic Stations of the Cross and ceramic crucifix over the entrance to the Lady Chapel by Kossowski; stained glass (C20) in the apse depicting St Alban, Christ the King, and St Francis and dedicated to members of the Bradford family; W window painted depiction of the Annunciation and other Marian scenes; 2 oil paintings at W end nave of Capuchin Saints (St Leopold Mandic and St Padre Pio).