Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1987. Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- endless-oriel-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton MP: Jim McMahon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, Block Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 908 040
- Coordinates
- 53.53326, -2.13915
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is a church built in 1870 by H. Ainley, designed in the Gothic revival style. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with slate and copper roofs. The building features a nave with a clerestory, aisles, a south-east tower, and a chancel. The nave and aisles are five bays long, each bay supported by a weathered buttress and containing a 2-light window with geometrical tracery, along with a door in the west bay. The clerestory has circular and cusped windows, and the gables are coped.
The tower is four stages high and castellated, featuring angled weathered buttresses, a door with colonnettes, cusped lancet windows, quatrefoil windows, and 2-light belfry openings, along with a square stair turret topped by a spirelet. The chancel is two bays long and has a five-light east window and a five-light west window.
Inside, the church has chamfered arches for the nave arcade supported by clustered columns, timber fittings, stained glass, and mosaic walls and floor in the chancel. A 20th-century ceiling conceals the nave roof structure.
Local climate
Christ Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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