Christ Church

Christ Church is a parish church built in 1896, designed by architect William Knill Freeman. It features coursed and squared stone with red sandstone dressings and a Westmorland slate roof, which replaced the original red tiled roof in 1945. The church is designed in the Perpendicular style.

The layout includes a nave with two lean-to aisles, transepts, and a chancel. The exterior showcases a gabled south porch with a steep moulded arched doorway, and the aisles have four bays, each with three-light rectilinear traceried windows set between buttresses. The transepts have two three-light windows, with an oval window above. There is a similar window on the south vestry, which features an octagonal turret with a wood traceried bell-chamber and a bell-cast roof with lucarnes at the eastern angle. The chancel is highlighted by a seven-light Perpendicular east window.

Inside, the church has a six-bay arcade with octagonal shafts and ring capitals, supporting double chamfered arches that continue uninterrupted through the transepts. The chancel arch is supported by clustered shafts on corbels. The roof is keeled, featuring hammerbeam principal trusses. A traceried openwork wood chancel screen, raised on a low stone plinth wall, dates from 1901. The pulpit has linenfold and open-work traceried panels, and the canopied choir stalls were likely installed around the same time. The Willis organ, built in 1903 and rebuilt in 1948, is housed in a case of similar style. The timber reredos has a canopy over the altar and tiered traceried panelling with a vine-scroll frieze, extended with simpler detail across the entire east end in 1901. Originally intended to have plain glazing, some stained glass was installed in the aisles and west end around 1920. The font at the west end is a large natural shell on an alabaster base.