Christ Church

Christ Church is a church built between 1863 and 1864 by architect E. G. Paley. It features rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The church includes a nave, transepts, and a chancel, along with north and south vestries. The five-bay nave has a coved cornice supported by corbels and features two-light plate tracery windows with shafts and capitals, as well as hood moulds with head stops, all set between weathered buttresses.

At the west end, there are setback buttresses flanking an open porch supported by round columns with crocket capitals, which hold up three ovolo-moulded shouldered lintels. Above the porch, there is a cornice and gablet adorned with a ball flower and a roundel depicting the head of Christ, topped by a hipped roof. A four-light window above the porch showcases Geometrical tracery, with shafts and capitals, head stops, and a smaller light above.

The transepts are designed with flat angle buttresses and plate tracery wheel windows featuring shafts. The northern transept has a turret to the east that includes an entrance with a gablet, an octagonal top with trefoil-headed openings, a cornice, and a slate-hung spire with lucarnes. The chancel has a canted end, deep buttresses, and a cornice decorated with ball flowers and gargoyles, along with two-light Geometrical tracery windows. The vestries are topped with parapets featuring trefoil-headed arcading and have two-light segmental-pointed windows, with a segmental-pointed head for the south entrance.

Inside, the nave boasts an arch-braced hammer beam roof supported by corbels. The transepts feature corbelled arches leading into the nave. The chancel arch is richly moulded and rests on triple shafts with crocket capitals. The font has a round bowl with an inscription band on clustered granite shafts. The pulpit is made of stone on a round pier, with trefoil-headed recesses and moulded gables with head stops. The church contains interesting 19th-century glass, particularly in the south and west windows, the latter created in 1893 by F. Holt. The chancel features a ribbed roof and segmental pointed arches leading to the vestries.