Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1988. Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-stair-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1988
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is a church built in 1875 by Myres, Veevers & Myres. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone and features a slate roof. The building includes a nave, a south porch, a north aisle, a lower chancel, a north vestry, and a tower with a stone spire located on the south side of the chancel.
At the west end of the nave, there are three lancet windows topped by a wheel window. The north aisle consists of four bays separated by buttresses, with the outer windows featuring paired lancets. The two inner windows have three lancets each, with the middle ones being cusped. The south wall of the nave has three bays divided by gabled buttresses, with the outer windows consisting of two trefoiled lights beneath a pointed head with a quatrefoil. The middle window has three lights, and to the left is a gabled porch with an outer doorway that is moulded and pointed, featuring angle shafts. The east window of the chancel has five lights with Geometric tracery.
The tower is supported by angle buttresses and has a south window on the lower stage with two trefoiled lights separated by an engaged shaft under a pointed head with a trefoil. The bell openings are paired lancets, and the tower rises to an octagonal spire with lucarnes.
Inside, there is a four-bay arcade with roll-moulded pointed arches that spring from paired granite columns with foliated capitals. The nave roof features arch-braced collars and king posts that are treated as round columns. The chancel arch is moulded and pointed, with short granite shafts as responds, supported by corbels with foliated caps. The chancel has pointed arches opening to the north and south and features a boarded barrel roof. The pulpit is made from 17th-century decorated square panelling and includes the date '1648'. The font has an octagonal sandstone bowl, while an early 18th-century font features a fluted Doric column as its stem and a round bowl with gadroon decoration. The east and west windows contain late 19th-century glass.
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