Dean Road, Church of St. Mary

1861-62. John Dobson Architect.
A handsome, dignified church in the "Decorated" style. Ashlar, of uneven courses, and slate roofs. The church has a chancel, nave with tall north and south aisles, buttressed, no clearstorey, a west tower and porch and vestry. The composition of the west front is most successful. The nave gable wall has a central buttress of 2 stages, to either side 2 tiers of windows and in the apex a rose window. At the north-west a sturdy square tower with angle buttresses; from its west face projects a gabled porch. This porch is balanced on the south-west by a gabled vestry projecting from the south aisle. The original design for the tower was not completed and the stump was capped by a pyramidal roof. This was removed in 1958 and the existing upper stage above the buttresses built. Demolished. Was listed grade 2.