Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. A Victorian Parish church. 1 related planning application.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- fallen-pinnacle-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington North MP: Charlotte Nichols (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1966
- Type
- Parish church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Christ Church, Station Road, Poulton-With-Fearnhead, WA2 0QG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 631 902
- Coordinates
- 53.40742, -2.55649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is a parish church built in 1838, with a chancel added in 1882 by W. Owen. The church features a red brick nave constructed in Flemish bond and a brown brick chancel in English bond, both topped with slate roofs. The nave has five bays designed in a lancet style, while the chancel is narrower and less lofty, with a vestry on the south side and an organ chamber on the north.
The main entrance to the nave has Gothic arched gables flanked by treble shafts with rings, topped by a steeply angled triangular panel that encloses a small lancet window. Buttresses with pilasters and steeply weathered caps flank the entrance. The nave's lancet windows have stone sills and heads, with a former moulded sill band and a string course that rises over the window heads. The windows feature leaded light glazing with stained glass in the gables of both the nave and chancel.
Additional architectural details include a bracketed eaves cornice with a lead gutter, gable copings, and a bell-cote with mouldings at the sill and head that rises above the apex. The nave has a lead ridge, while the chancel has a tile ridge.
Inside, the altar has been moved forward, and the entire chancel is now used for the choir. A small marble reredos with inset panels and four gold angels remains in place. The chancel features two hammer beam trusses with collars, short king posts, shallow curved beams, trefoil infilling, exposed purlins, and rafters, along with a boarded soffit. The nave has kingpost trusses with curved braces below the tie beams, gothic arcade infilling, exposed purlins, and a plastered soffit. There are also brass monuments dedicated to a former Vicar and Church Warden.
Local climate
Christ Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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