Christ Church, Denshaw is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1967. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Christ Church, Denshaw
- WRENN ID
- pitched-corbel-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, Denshaw, Huddersfield Road, Saddleworth, OL3 5SB
- OS grid reference
- SD 975 105
- Coordinates
- 53.59172, -2.038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church, built in 1863 for Henry Gartside, is a church constructed of rock-faced stone with a slate roof. The building comprises a nave with a clerestory, aisles, a west tower, and a chancel. The aisles are characterised by a projecting plinth and flat buttresses. Each aisle bay features a triple cusped lancet window; a porch in the first bay has a coped gable with kneelers. The clerestory has quatrefoil windows. The east window is a five-light design with geometrical tracery. Gabled organ chambers and chapels are situated to either side of the chancel. The roof has a steeply pitched profile with coped gables and kneelers. The three-stage tower has a three-light window on the first stage, a clock face in the second stage, and two-light belfry openings. It is topped by a castellated parapet with stepped merlons, pierced trefoils, and corner pinnacles. Inside, the nave arcade features double-chamfered arches on circular columns with moulded capitals. The roof is supported by arch-braced trusses. The Gartside chapel contains a stone altar set within a cusped recess. Stained glass windows are present, alongside an octagonal stone pulpit.
Local climate
Christ Church, Denshaw sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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