Christ Church

Christ Church is a parish church located on Christchurch Road in Oxton, built in 1844 by W. Jearrad. The building features tooled ashlar stonework and Welsh slate roofs, set on a sloping site with an undercroft towards the liturgical east. The west tower is two stages high and has an advanced ogival arch with clustered shafts at the west door, a quatrefoil, and a clock above, with paired glazed lights. The plain block corbel table supports a brooch spire with lucarnes. The nave consists of six bays, separated by buttresses topped with pinnacles, each bay containing a wide lancet window with lattice glazing in a double chamfered surround. The two-storeyed transepts have gable walls divided into sections by buttresses, featuring a stepped window on the main storey and a rose window above. There is a doorway in a steep projecting gablet towards the east. The east wall has paired lancets in the aisles above gabletted buttresses, and a doorway in the south aisle. The chancel has stepped lancets with a rose window above in a full-height archway, and triple lancets that light the hall below.

Inside, the nave is undivided with six bays, featuring a west gallery and raking galleries in the transepts. The original roof has been replaced, but the original seating and choir stalls remain largely intact. A Willis organ is present, along with two low-relief panels by T. Kelly as a memorial to James and Agnes Roper. The church contains a series of late 19th to early 20th-century stained glass windows in medieval and Pre-Raphaelite styles, including two early 20th-century windows signed by Jones and Willis, and angels depicted in the rose windows over the transepts. It is noted that the church was built as a speculation, designed without a specific liturgical practice in mind.