Christ Church

Christ Church is a parish church dating to 1854, with a north aisle added in 1926. The church was designed by Fulljames & Walker, and the north aisle by B Miller. It is constructed from tooled red Bunter sandstone in squared coursed rubble, with ashlar dressings and a timber and stone porch, and has green Westmoreland slate roofs with coped gables.

The church consists of a two-bay chancel, a four-bay nave with a north aisle, a south porch, and an east bellcote. The nave and chancel stand on plinths, with diagonal buttresses to the chancel and angle and diagonal buttresses to the nave. The east window has three trefoiled lights with quatrefoil tracery in the head. Chancel windows are single trefoil-headed lights in moulded rectangular surrounds. The steeply gabled south porch features scissor bracing at the front and a boarded south door with strap hinges. Nave windows are two-centred with two trefoil-headed lights beneath trefoil tracery. The north aisle and vestry additions feature gabled windows with mullions carved as angels, and the clerestory windows are trefoils. The west window has four lights with octofoil and mouchette tracery. A moulded sill string runs beneath the windows, which generally have hoodmoulds with fruit ball stops. The chancel has a wheel cross on the gable, and the bellcote is gabled with a single pointed opening.

Inside, oak panelling flanks a panelled reredos which is fixed to the sanctuary side walls. The chancel roof is arch-braced with exposed rafters and ashlars. Two large and one small arch separate the north aisle from the nave. The roof is arch-braced, supported by elaborate corbels consisting of shafts rising from deep clusters of vines. The rafters are exposed with ashlars. An oak altar has three panels with a trefoil motif. The altar rail has shield decoration and the front of the choir stalls features a fruit motif attached to a linenfold fronted reading desk. A 1929 pulpit has a simple Gothic motif. An octagonal font has an oak and metal strap banded cover. Stained glass by Wailes and Kempe is present in the east window and chancel.