Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1986. Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- fossil-vestry-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1986
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BARNTON C.P. CHURCH ROAD SJ 67 SW (North Side) 4/10 Christ Church - - II
Church: 1842, chancel added 1900 (Pevsner and Hubbard) , small extension dated 1974. Tooled ashlar pink sandstone, Welsh slate roof. 8-bay nave and chancel in one range. South porch and organ chapel. Gabled porch has diagonal buttresses and a 2-centred arch on colonnettes with a label mould on carved head stops. Bays of nave are divided by buttresses and nave lancets with label moulds on ball flower stops. Corbel table above detailed towards east end. Gabled chapel has angle buttresses, priest's door, a lancet and a blank trefoil in the gable. East and west ends are kneelered and have triple lancets. Double lancet bellcote at west end. Interior: simple nave with 2-centred arched trusses on moulded corbels. Gallery at west end on cast-iron columns above vestry. Chancel roof simpler. Reredos with washed Gothick arcading and carved Last Supper scene. Late Perpendicular or Puginesque stone pulpit with rich gothic detail (now painted) moved here from St Helen's, Witton. Brass Boer War memorial plaque to local soldier.
Listing NGR: SJ6369274796
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