Christ Church

Christ Church is a Congregational, now United Reformed Church, built in 1904 as a Lady Lever Memorial, with a Lever family vault added in 1914. It was designed by William and Segar Owen and is constructed of stone with a stone slate roof. The church comprises a nave with aisles, a chancel, a double north transept (the ritual north is the actual northeast), a south transept, and a south-east tower. A Lady Lever Memorial forms a loggia at the west end.

The 6-bay nave has aisles with sill courses and raking buttresses projecting through the eaves, along with clerestory buttresses with coping. It features 3-light windows with free Perpendicular tracery, straight-headed to the aisles and segmental-headed to the clerestory. A south-west gabled porch has a segmental-headed entrance recess, buttresses, and a panelled gable. The west end features north and south canted projections with a parapet, and a 4-centred window of 9 lights with 2 buttressed and pinnacled mullions. The transepts have panelled gabled set-back buttresses with pinnacles and segmental-pointed windows of 4 lights with a king mullion. The south transept has an entrance with a cusped head.

The tower has set-back buttresses and spouts, a cornice, and a traceried embattled parapet. It has a cusped-headed entrance and a 2-light window to the south, with paired 2-light windows and a 4-light window to the east. The bell stage has paired 2-light louvred bell openings. The chancel is canted with segmental-pointed windows of 2:5:6:5:2-lights, the east window having 2 buttressed, pinnacled mullions. It has panelled buttresses and a parapet. The Lady Lever Memorial has three bays, richly decorated with buttresses and pinnacles; canted angles have niches. It features 4-centred arches with foliate spandrels, the central arch with panelling and a niche. Flanking canted projections have cusped ogee hoods to the arches below, all topped by an embattled parapet.

Inside, the church has a tieceron vault with rich bosses, and simple arcading. It features tie-beam roofs. Furnishings are by Hatch. A square font has a square base for a canted stone pulpit. The organ, by Henry Willis II, features a Swell box in the north transept, and Solo, Choir, and Great divisions in the chancel. It is believed to be the only extant large instrument by Willis II in its original, fully pneumatic condition. Iron standing candlebra are present, and two windows date from 1950 by Bossanyi. The church is listed at Grade II* for its impressive architecture by William and Segar Owen, its place within the nationally significant community of Port Sunlight, and for its interior features including the Lever family vault and the original Henry Willis II organ.