Listed Building: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY CROWNED (1384299)

Roman Catholic church. 1882-87. Coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with coped gables and cross finials. STYLE: Gothic Revival. PLAN: nave with aisles, bell tower, west baptistry, south-west porch and apsidal east end. EXTERIOR: double chamfered plinth, sill bands, moulded cornice and angle buttresses with set-offs, gabled tops and 4 corner pinnacles. West front has projecting apsidal baptistry with single trefoil window to each face topped by pierced parapet. Above large 6-light pointed arch window with geometrical tracery. North aisle has pointed arch doorway and south aisle single 2-light pointed arch window. North and south aisles have eight 2-light pointed arch windows, one on south side replaced with projecting gabled porch and another replaced with projecting confessional, above 8 pairs of lancets to clerestory. Roof has gabled dormer vents. Prominent polygonal bell tower to south-east corner of nave supported by massive buttresses with outsize set-offs. Apsidal east end has five 2-light pointed arch windows with geometrical tracery and pierced parapet. INTERIOR: has nave of 8 bays with circular piers and responds with moulded square section capitals, chamfered corners, continuous hoodmould with shields in spandrel. Deeply recessed paired clerestory windows. Scissor braced roof with arched braces, aisles with stone transverse strainer arches. Panelled doors to confessional and presbytery under hoodmoulds. Chancel with stone parcloses of 5 open bays with trefoil headed arches surmounted by angels. Sanctuary marked by sentry arch on corbelled double shafts. 3 bay stone reredos; the other sides of the canted apse with painted arches and decorated ceiling. FITTINGS: included low chancel screen wall. Decorated iron screen to western baptistry projects into nave. Octagonal stone font. Altar with last supper etc in relief. Stained glass to apse with scenes from the life of Mary. Triple arched sedilia under elaborate traceried canopy. Complete set of contemporary open benches to nave. Screens to internal porch.