Christ Church

Christ Church is a parish church dating to 1860-61, with additions made in 1891 and the early 20th century. Designed by Henry Currey, the church was patronized by the Seventh Duke of Devonshire. It is constructed of coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs with coped gables and kneelers.

The church is built in a Romanesque Revival style. The plan incorporates a nave with aisles, a west tower with a stair turret and porch, north and south transepts, a chancel with an apsidal end, an organ chamber, and vestries on either side.

The exterior features pilaster buttresses on wide set-off plinths, a chamfered plinth, and a sill band. All openings are round-headed. The south front includes a doorway within the tower, featuring chamfered and splayed jambs, a gabled string course, and a slender central shaft repeated on three other sides. The west face has small windows providing light to the porch, with narrower windows above for the ringing chamber. The upper sections of the tower have arched recesses containing foiled and louvred circular bell openings, with a louvred gablet at eaves level above each pair. The south aisle has three windows with raised hoods and a linking corbel table. The south transept features two windows above a large circular foiled window. The east front is dominated by a central semi-circular apse with five windows, and a gabled vestry to the right with a large circular foiled window. The north transept is similar to the south, the north aisle has four windows, and the west front has a single window to the aisle with an almond-shaped window in the gable, and two windows to the nave, with a large circular foiled window above. A semicircular stair projection is located at the junction with the west tower.

The interior is plastered. The nave features square section arcade posts with chamfered wooden detailing, moulded stone bases, shaped angle braces to plates, and pierced spandrels, creating the effect of arches. Stone piers, quatrefoil in section, are present on the west side of the crossing with moulded caps. The chancel arch is stilted, with orders of splayed mouldings on capped shafts. Five windows with trefoil arched heads are within the chancel apse. The roof is of open timber construction. Painted decoration was added to the chancel in 1916.

Interior fittings include items dating to the early 20th century in a 14th-century Gothic style. A mid-16th century English Renaissance style altar and retable are present, along with a square Caen stone font. The pews are reputedly Butterly pews, and the church includes Derbyshire black marble pillars. The church contains 19th and 20th century glass, notably a window in the south aisle designed by Morris & Co. in 1915.