St Edward King and Confessor Catholic Church, Clifford

The church was built to serve the population of Irish workers that came to work in the flax mill owned by the Grimston Brothers that was established in the village in 1831. The Grimstons, Cliffords and Vavasour families contributed to the cost of building the church. It was built in the Romanesque style by J.A. Hansom to designs by Ramsay between 1845 and 1848. The tower was built to designs by George Goldie and completed in 1866-7. It was built on the site of a former Wesleyan Chapel, hence its location on Chapel Lane, where it joins the High Street.

There is a three-bay arcade under the west organ gallery in the tower. The aisle arcades have plain cylindrical piers and octagonal capitals to round arches. The two eastern bays form the sanctuary. Two of the stained glass windows, in the Lady Chapel and north aisle, has been attributed to Augustus Pugin (1848). Five windows are by Antoine Lusson, or Lusson and Bourdant, of France (1850s).