Tower of Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Church tower.
Tower of Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- tall-copper-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich MP: Connor Naismith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Church tower
- Address
- Tower of Christ Church, Prince Albert Street, Crewe
- OS grid reference
- SJ 706 556
- Coordinates
- 53.09688, -2.44003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tower of Christ Church is a church tower built in 1877 by engineer J W Stansby. It is made of yellow sandstone and is square in shape, connecting to the mainly brick outer walls of the church, which was originally constructed in 1843 by John Cunningham. The church's roof was removed and the interior was gutted in 1978. The tower features coursed rock-faced rubble masonry and has reducing angle buttresses.
The west door is designed in a gothic style, with a chevron pattern and is flanked by single shafts, topped with a hood mould that has stops carved as faces. Above the entrance, there is a large window with geometrical tracery. The windows on the north and south sides are arranged at two levels, set within partly blind arcades formed by shafts, with lancet windows at the lower level and trefoil-headed windows above.
The tower has clock dials on all four sides, set within flat diaper panels made of square carved masonry blocks. At the bell stage, there are treble louvred lancets divided by coupled shafts with rings. The corners of the tower are adorned with octagonal pinnacles that have shafts and lancet sinkings, which flank a stepped and crocketted gabled parapet.
Local climate
Tower of Christ Church receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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