Church of Christ is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1998. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Church of Christ
- WRENN ID
- upper-sill-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1998
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Christ, Hough Green, CH4 8JW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 389 651
- Coordinates
- 53.17959, -2.91472
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Christ, built in 1855, was formerly likely part of the Holy Epiphany Lache and Saltney Parish. Designed by James Harrison, it features red sandstone with a grey slate roof and has its gable facing the road.
The west front includes double framed and boarded doors on wrought-iron hinges, set in a moulded Gothic archway within a projecting panel that has side-buttresses. There are diagonal stepped buttresses at the corners and triple lancets with sharply pointed ogee arches above the entrance. The masonry is predominantly rock-faced squared snecked rubble, except for the entrance panel. The gable is coped with kneelers and cross-gabled finials.
The nave has four bays with stepped buttresses, some of which are badly eroded on the south side, and features lancet windows. The chancel, which is lower and narrower with diagonal corner buttresses, has a small pair of lancets and a trefoil window in the east gable above. The nave windows are adorned with Art Nouveau glass.
Inside, the nave has a boarded floor, a boarded dado, plastered walls, three arched trusses, and exposed purlins and rafters. Original pews are present, and a room to the east of the nave, likely the former chancel, is now walled off up to the springing of the arch, which contains a loft with a pipe organ.
Historically, James Harrison had originally planned a more ambitious church at the junction of Boundary Lane and Green Lane in Saltney, which would have included a school for 140 children. The more modest building adjacent to the north side of the church, which is not included in this listing, appears to have been designed as a school in the mid-19th century.
Local climate
Church of Christ 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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