Christ Church

Christ Church is a parish church built in 1857 by P.C. Hardwick for Frances Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry, with a south aisle added in 1862. The church is constructed from snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and features steeply-pitched Welsh slate roofs. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style and includes an aisled nave, chancel, south porch, and north vestry, all adorned with Geometrical tracery.

The building has a chamfered stone plinth and a four-bay nave with an angle-buttressed west end, which features a five-light window in a double-chamfered reveal. Atop the nave is a tall, two-stage bellcote with three lancets and a cross. The aisles contain groups of two and three-light trefoil-headed lancets. The south porch is projecting and gabled, flanked by stepped buttresses, and has a doorway in a pointed arch of three orders beneath a hoodmould, along with a group of three quatrefoils under a pointed hoodmould in the gable. The slightly lower, single-bay chancel has a diagonally-buttressed east end with a five-light window under a pointed hoodmould, while the projecting north vestry features a three-light window with stepped, trefoil-headed lancets.

Inside, the church is spacious, with a nave arcade consisting of three chamfered, pointed arches on octagonal piers with moulded caps and bases, and a smaller pointed arch at the west end. The nave has a waggon roof with closely spaced braces, and the chancel arch is tall and double-chamfered, supported by three clustered columns with a moulded semicircular-plan cap. The chancel has a panelled barrel roof.