Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Church.

Christ Church

WRENN ID
dusk-tallow-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wigan
Constituency
Leigh and Atherton MP: Jo Platt (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 1987
Type
Church
Address
Christ Church, Schofield Street
OS grid reference
SJ 654 995
Coordinates
53.4913, -2.52258
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Christ Church is a church built between 1850 and 1854 by E. H. Shellard. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features a slate roof. The building includes a nave, clerestory, aisles, chancel, and a west tower, all designed in the Gothic Revival style with Perpendicular elements. The church has a 6-bay nave and aisles, along with a 2-bay chancel that has a projecting plinth and weathered buttresses. The aisle windows are 3-light, while the clerestory and chancel windows are 2-light. There is a porch located in the first bay and a prominent 5-light east window. The gables are adorned with raked parapets and cross finials. The west tower is castellated and consists of three stages, featuring weathered diagonal buttresses and crocketed corner pinnacles. The west door is set beneath a crocketed ogee hoodmould, and there are two 2-light belfry openings with similar hoods, along with a 3-light transomed west window.

Inside, the church has a double-chamfered nave arcade supported by octagonal columns with moulded capitals. The roof features arch-braced collar-tie trusses. There is a west gallery with an arcaded parapet, which has been partitioned off below in the 20th century. The interior includes timber fittings and stained glass.

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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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