Christ Church

Christ Church is a large Gothic Revival church built between 1812 and 1816 by Thomas Taylor of Leeds. The church is constructed of ashlar and dressed stone, featuring a pitched slate roof with a crenellated parapet. It has a west tower, a 5-bay nave with clerestorey lean-to aisles, and a 2-bay chancel that includes a side chapel and vestry. The church boasts large 3-light aisle windows and 2-light clerestory windows, all adorned with Perpendicular tracery and hood moulds. The divisions between the bays are marked by gabled buttresses, and there is a prominent perpendicular east window with panel tracery. The tower is four tiers high with angle buttresses, a doorway on the south side, and a blocked doorway on the west side. The bell chamber features large 6-light louvred and traceried openings, along with a crenellated parapet and crocketted pinnacles.

Inside, the church has 5-bay arcades supported by octagonal piers. There is a gallery at the rear, likely added later, with a panelled oak front resting on slender oak columns. A fine oak rood screen, crafted between 1911 and 1912, showcases carvings of the 12 northern saints at the bottom. Slender supports rise to a fan and support a crested cornice with an elaborately carved frieze of vines. The east window contains stained glass from 1864, and there is a hexagonal marble font that is intricately carved with a lion, bull, angel, eagle, lamb, and shield.