Roman Catholic church. 1873-5 and 1913-14 by Edmund Kirby. Buff sandstone; grey slate roofs. Continuous aisled nave and sanctuary, liturgical orientation reversed. The west front is symmetrical; projecting nave-width porch has pair of boarded doors with statue of St Werburgh on column between; a pair of lancets in recessed arch to each side of statue. The porch is gabled, and with gabled parapet to each side-wall. The gabled west end of the nave has triple lancets, flanked by flat gabled buttresses. A lancet in west end of each aisle; loop in nave gable; cross finial. The aisles have buttresses between paired lancets; cross-gabled wings. 15 clerestory lancets to each side of nave and sanctuary; Apsidal east end with 5 lancets; ambulatory.
Edmund Kirby was an English architect. He was born in Liverpool and articled to E. W. Pugin in London, then became an assistant to John Douglas in Chester. He travelled abroad in France and Belgium before opening practice independently in Liverpool. He was an architect to the Roman Catholic Church and also to the North and South Wales Bank.
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