Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Church. 1 related planning application.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- woven-railing-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, Station Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 404 769
- Coordinates
- 53.28614, -2.89507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church was built between 1869 and 1871 as the parish church for Ellesmere Port, located near the site of an earlier Chapel of Ease from the Eastham Parish, which has since been demolished. The church features a cruciform design, created on a limited budget, and is well composed with intersecting roofs over the nave, chancel, short transepts, and vestry. It has a small diminishing pyramidal spire with a louvred belfry and square rock-faced sandstone rubble walls. The east window consists of three lights with geometric tracery, while the spacious aisleless nave has three-light windows and the transepts have two-light windows, both featuring plate tracery.
Inside, the church remains largely unaltered. The nave roof is supported by collar-braced softwood trusses with cusped arches, while the chancel has more massive trusses. There are flat pointed arches between the nave and the one-bay transepts. Notable interior features include a stone pulpit with cusped arches and marble columns, as well as a circular stone font.
Local climate
Christ Church receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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