Christ Church

DENTON MANCHESTER ROAD SJ 99 NW (south side)

4/48 Christ Church 27/11/67 (formerly listed as Church of Christ)

G.V. II

Church. 1848-53. By G.G.Scott for the Church Commissioners. Hammer-dressed stone with slate roof. Nave and aisles (no clerestory) each under a pitched roof. North-west tower, chancel. Gothic revival. Plain exterior has 4-bay aisles with projecting plinth and weathered buttresses placed at corners only. Each bay has a 2-light window with plate tracery. Similar windows to 3-bay nave but with hoodmoulds and carved stops. 4-light east window and 3-light west window with geometrical tracery. Coped gables with finials. The 3-stage tower has bold angled buttresses, an arched door beneath a gable, lancet openings at second stage, paired lancet belfry openings with clock faces above, and a broach spire with lucarnes Interior: double-chamfered nave arcade with alternating circular and octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases. Arch-braced roof trusses spring from carved corbels Waggon roof to chancel. Alabaster font and pulpit. Stained glass. Timber fittings. The 2 west bays and the north aisle have been partitioned off in C20.

Listing NGR: SJ9200695477