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
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 July 1986
Type
Church
Address
Christ Church, Church Road, Barnton
OS grid reference
SJ 636 747
Coordinates
53.26892, -2.54585
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Christ Church is a church built in 1842, with a chancel added in 1900 and a small extension dated 1974. It is constructed from tooled ashlar pink sandstone and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has an 8-bay nave and chancel in one range, along with a south porch and an organ chapel. The gabled porch includes diagonal buttresses and a 2-centred arch supported by colonnettes, with a label mould on carved head stops. The nave's bays are separated by buttresses and nave lancets that have label moulds on ball flower stops. There is a corbel table detailed towards the east end. The gabled chapel features angle buttresses, a priest's door, a lancet, and a blank trefoil in the gable. The east and west ends are kneelered and have triple lancets, while a double lancet bellcote is located at the west end.

Inside, the nave is simple, with 2-centred arched trusses on moulded corbels. There is a gallery at the west end supported by cast-iron columns above the vestry. The chancel roof is simpler in design. The reredos features washed Gothick arcading and a carved scene of the Last Supper. A late Perpendicular or Puginesque stone pulpit, rich in gothic detail and now painted, has been moved here from St Helen's, Witton. Additionally, there is a brass Boer War memorial plaque dedicated to a local soldier.

Local climate

Christ Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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