Church Of Christ

The Church of Christ, built between 1849 and 1850 by G Shaw, is a church located on Gandy Lane in Middle Healey, Rochdale. It is constructed from random roughly dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs. The building includes a nave with a clerestory, aisles, a southwest tower, and a north porch. The chancel has a south chapel and a north organ chamber or vestry. The nave is six bays long with low aisles and features 2-light geometrical tracery windows of varying designs. The aisles are supported by low weathered buttresses with gablets. The three-stage tower has a southern entrance, traceried single-light openings in the bell stage, and a broach spire. The chancel, chapel, and vestry have separate roofs, creating a triple east gable, and all roofs are adorned with coped gables and cross finials.

Inside, the church features double chamfered pointed nave arcades supported by octagonal piers with moulded capitals and waterholding bases on the south side. There is a double chamfered pointed chancel arch, and the wooden roof structure, which has scissor braces, is supported on stone corbels. The south chapel is separated by elaborate wooden screens. The church was constructed with the assistance of a Commissioners' Grant.