Christ Church

SD 74 SE CHATBURN SAWLEY ROAD

7/5 Christ Church - - II

Church, 1838, by Edmund Sharpe, with aisles and chancel added 1882 by F. Robinson (Pevsner). Squared limestone with sandstone ashlar dressings, and slate roof. Romanesque style, with additions in keeping. Comprises a west tower with spire, a nave with south porch, 3 transeptal gables on north and south sides forming aisles, and a lower chancel with semi- circular apse. The tower is of 3 stages broached to a spire of sandstone ashlar. The lower stage has 2 blank arches on each side, with 2 round- headed windows on the west side. The upper stages each have 2 similar openings on each side, separated by pilaster strips and with Lombard friezes. The bays of the main church are separated by pilaster strips and have Lombard friezes. The nave, of 2 bays on the north side and with one bay to the west of the porch on the south side, has tall windows with splayed limestone reveals and round heads. Each aisle bay has similar windows, paired with a single pierced quatrefoil above and under a semi-circular relieving arch. A plaque in the wall of the apse records that the chancel was built in memory of Robert Ingram, d.1879. Interior. The 3-bay nave arcades have semi-circular arches, banded round columns, and foliated capitals and responds. The moulded round chancel arch is carried on short corbelled shafts with foliated capitals. Below are piers with angle shafts, from which spring flanking arches opening into the organ chamber and the south chapel. An inscribed band in the south aisle wall records that the church was enlarged in 1882. At the west end is a gallery with timber front. The roof is carried on arch- braced trusses. The windows contain glass of various late C19th dates.

Listing NGR: SD7699244277