Church Of St Christopher

The Church of St. Christopher is a church built in 1899 by Rev. Hawes, featuring rock-faced, snecked stone and a Welsh slate roof in the Arts and Crafts style. The church includes a nave, chancel, south porch, and north chapel.

The west end showcases a large round window with a rock-faced surround. The 4-bay nave has a south porch with a round-headed doorway beneath a canted catslide roof. The door is adorned with wood panels featuring leaf carving and period lettering. The eaves overhang with curved wood struts supported by stone corbels. Some medieval fragments are incorporated into the wall. The south wall of the nave has three wide, short round-arched windows with radiating glazing bars and rock-faced voussoirs, while the north wall is blank.

The chancel features a 4-light window in an ashlar surround with segmental heads for the lights, as well as an elliptical-arched priest's door. The east end is blank except for two slit windows. The nave roof is gabled, while the higher chancel roof is half-hipped at the east end and gabled at the west end, which projects as a bell turret on curved struts.

Inside, the church has canted wood boarded ceilings and a stone pointed arch leading to the north chapel. The east end slit windows have exposed stone jambs and rere arches. There is an old octagonal font set on a 20th-century base, and a low west gallery features panels of naturalistic carving.

Rev. Hawes was the curate of Gunnerton before converting to Roman Catholicism and emigrating to Australia, where he built several churches. He later became a hermit in the Bahamas, as noted in "The Hermit of Cat Island" by Anson.