Christ Church

Christ Church is a church built between 1893 and 1894 by the architectural firm Paley and Austin, with the chancel and steeple added in 1927. The building is constructed of red brick with pink sandstone dressings and features a red tiled roof along with green slate cladding on the spire. The church has a nave with low aisles, a chancel under the same roof, and a south-west steeple with an attached porch, all designed in the Decorated style.

The west gable facing the road includes angle buttresses and a very large two-centred arched window with five full-height lights. The parapet on the north side steps down to the nave. The six-bay nave features a chamfered sill-band and two sandstone bands that extend into the window surrounds, along with large two-centred arched three-light windows that have mouchette tracery in their heads, and moulded surrounds with hoodmoulds made of glazed light red brick. Each low aisle has two small two-light windows with rounded lights, and there are short mono-pitch roofed transeptal chapels at the east end of the nave.

The continuation of the chancel, built in 1927, matches the style and materials of the original structure and includes a very large east window that is two-centred arched with seven lights and mouchette tracery in the head. The square brick three-stage tower features two-light belfry louvres, a sandstone parapet that steps up at the corners, and is topped with a small octagonal spire. The gabled porch attached to the south side of the tower has a moulded stone doorway and a stone parapet.

Inside, the church has an unusual arcade of stone piers that alternately lack capitals, with the stone continuing above the springing of moulded semi-circular arches made of brick. The very wide chancel arch is designed similarly, with the inner moulding rising from a corbelled stone shaft. The wagon roof is supported by shallow trusses of raised tie-beams with struts and false kingposts.