Christ Church

Christ Church is a church built in 1866 by Slater and Carpenter. It is constructed of red stone with yellow stone banding and features a slate roof. The building includes a nave with aisles, a west tower with a porch, and a chancel that has a north vestry and a south chapel. The tower has set back buttresses, a three-light west window with plate tracery, and a clock face above. The porch has a hipped roof and a south entrance. The bell stage of the tower features clasping buttresses with nook shafts and paired louvred bell openings. The splayed spire is adorned with quatrefoil pinnacles at the angles and quatrefoil piercings.

The nave has five bays with aisles that include paired cusped lancets situated between weathered buttresses. The clerestory features ten single lights. The vestry and chapel both have hipped roofs and two two-light plate tracery windows. The chancel has a canted end and two-light windows.

Inside, the church displays painted brick polychromy. The nave arcades are supported by round piers with early English capitals, and there is an arch-braced collar roof on corbels. The chancel arch is set on paired responds, with arcading and a three-bay reredos featuring mosaic work. Wrought iron light fittings are present throughout. The font, located under the tower, is octagonal and supported by marble piers, dating from 1871. There is a screen from 1920 and an organ from 1925. The church occupies an important site overlooking the town.