The Easington Church of the Ascension is a brick-built building standing in its own extensive grounds with associated vicarage and hall. The church was built in 1929 (1) and first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map (2). Recent aerial photographs (3) and streetview data (4) show that the church is a large, roughly rectangular, building with shallow-pitched tiled roof. The northern and southern sides of the church have additional lower roofed extensions that form elongated transepts. Two sets of steps lead to entrances into the church on the northern edge and through the western gable. Arched windows along the northern and southern walls are located high up, above the lower roof line of the. The church is known to contain a decorated memorial screen dedicated to 83 miners who were killed in the Easington pit disaster of 1951 (1) as well as a First World War roll of honour memorial (5).