Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1966. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-screen-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, Burnley Road, Todmorden, OL14 7BS
- OS grid reference
- SD 934 244
- Coordinates
- 53.7162, -2.1
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is a Commissioners church dating from 1832, designed by L. Vulliamy. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings, a slate roof, and a north porch. The building is in the Early English Lancet style and comprises a five-bay nave. Architectural features include angle buttresses, a plinth, a string, a corbel table, and two-light windows with offset buttresses set between. The three-bay north porch has a string that rises over a pointed arched doorway. The parapet is topped with pyramidal finials and a cross at its centre. There are two-light clerestory windows and finials to the corners of the aisles and clerestory.
The west tower has canted walls to embrace the staircase to the gallery. The three-stage embattled tower has clasping buttresses. The pointed arched west door is flanked by a stepped window of three tall lights on the second stage, and a two-light belfry with a clock set within a blind arcade on the third stage; buttresses continue upward to form finials. The shallow chancel has angle buttresses to the east only, and an east window of three stepped lights set within a pointed arch with a hoodmould.
Inside, the nave has a pointed arched arcade with octagonal columns and moulded capitals, and a slightly cambered wooden roof. The chancel extends two bays further, with a waggon roof and an elaborate opus sectile mosaic depicting texts invoking the Redeemer and companies of saints, amongst other scenes. A wrought iron chancel screen and gates are present, as is a gallery on three sides. Late 19th-century pews are found throughout the church.
Local climate
Christ Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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