Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1985. Church. 5 related planning applications.

Christ Church

WRENN ID
steep-pillar-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rotherham
Constituency
Rawmarsh and Conisbrough MP: John Healey (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 August 1985
Type
Church
Address
Christ Church, Melton High Street
OS grid reference
SE 421 009
Coordinates
53.50334, -1.36587
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Christ Church is a church built in 1855 by Pritchett and Sons, constructed from rock-faced sandstone with a slate roof. The building features a three-stage west tower and a five-bay aisled nave that includes a south porch. There is also a two-bay chancel with gabled projections on the north and south sides, all designed in the Gothic revival style. The windows are adorned with Decorated-style tracery and hoodmoulds that have head-carved stops. The church has buttresses between the bays and diagonal buttresses at the angles and lower two stages of the tower, along with shaped kneelers and gable copings.

The tower has offset bands at each stage, a door on the south side beneath a two-light window, and an elaborate crocketed niche on the west side. The second stage features a single light window beneath a clock, while the belfry has paired two-light openings. Corner gargoyles are positioned beneath a pierced parapet, although the pinnacles have been removed. The nave includes a gabled porch at bay two, with the other bays featuring three-light windows. The chancel is lower and has gabled projections at the angles with the aisles, along with a five-light east window and a gable cross.

Inside, the church has cyma-moulded piers and arches in the nave arcades, with foliate carved capitals. The vaulted roof has ribs that spring from angel corbels and is decorated with gilded bosses. The furnishings are contemporary oak, including a rood screen.

Local climate

Christ Church receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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