Christ Church Primary School

Christ Church Primary School, built around 1870 and probably designed by Austin & Paley, is a school building, now closed and unoccupied. It is constructed from coursed dressed sandstone with graduated slate roofs. The building has an uneven cross-shaped plan, with three bays to the left of the cross wing and five bays to the right, plus a single-storey entrance porch at the end.

The main elevation features entrances at the right end (for boys) and to the left of the cross wing (for girls and infants). Two dormers are visible in the second and fourth bays to the right of the cross wing. A continuous band runs across the first floor. Ground-floor glazing has been lost. Tall mullioned windows are located to the left of the cross wing. "GIRLS & INFANTS" is inscribed above the entrance, with a four-pane light above. The gable end has two pointed arch windows at ground and first floor level; the upper windows are tall 21-pane sashes. Windows to the right are also pointed arches with 12 panes, including those in the dormers. A small clock or bell tower with a pyramid roof sits on the centre ridge of the right side. The right-hand entrance has a shouldered arch doorway with its original door, and a drip-moulded panel above, though any lettering it contained is no longer visible. A stone-walled playground is located to the rear. A boarded-up, 20th-century stone and glass extension is attached to the side of the cross wing. The interior was not examined.

The precise date of construction and the architects' attribution remain unconfirmed, but the school's style is similar to that of the listed Royal Grammar School opposite, which was designed by Sharpe and Paley in 1851 with later extensions by Paley and Austin around 1887. The school closed in 2003.