Church Of Christ

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.