Christ Church

Christ Church is a parish church dating to 1854, designed by Edward Haycock Snr. The church is constructed from random rubble with ashlar dressings and renewed plain tile roofs, built in the Early English style. It features a plinth and coped gables with crosses. The windows are primarily plain lancets.

The church comprises a chancel, organ chamber, vestry, nave with a bellcote, and a south porch. The chancel, with two bays, has a sill band and diagonal buttresses. Its east end features three lancets, the south side two, and the north side one, all with hood moulds. An organ chamber to the south has a sill band, corner buttresses, a south gable with two lancets and a cusped roundel above, and a pointed arched doorway, all with hood moulds. The vestry has a prominent stack to its north gable and an inserted flat-headed doorway. A two-light shouldered window is positioned on the east side. The nave, with four bays, has diagonal buttresses to the west gable and single buttresses to the north and south. A lancet is present in the north gable. The west gable has a central buttress flanked by single lancets, a sill band, and a hood mould. Above this is a vescia piscis containing a figure, and above that, a clock installed in 1923. A shouldered, gabled bellcote features a cusped single arched opening and a cross. The north and south sides of the nave have a double lancet with simple tracery to the east. The north side contains three lancets, and the south side, two. The gabled south porch has a cusped fillet-moulded doorway with a hood mould and trefoil openings on each side.

The interior is rendered. The chancel features a double chamfered arch with imposts on corbels and a hood mould with mask stops. It has a scissor braced roof with ashlar pieces. A pointed arched doorway and a plain window are positioned on the north side, while the east end contains a stained glass window dated 1884. An elaborate ashlar reredos with marble shafts, pinnacles, and cusped inlaid panels was begun in 1886 and completed in 1904. The south side has two plain windows on a sill band and a single sedilia. A cove moulded pointed arched opening leads to the organ chamber, which has patterned stained glass windows and a late 20th-century organ case in the 15th-century style.

The nave has an arch braced roof on corbels, with additional arch braces above the collar. Stained glass windows were added in 1948 by Hardman and in 1967 by G Maill. A half-octagonal ashlar pulpit with a pelican motif and stiff-leaf brackets is present. The south side has a chamfered segmental pointed doorway. The west end features a clock case and mechanism from 1923, and plain windows. A west gallery was removed, and the organ was re-sited in the late 20th century.

Original fittings include an octagonal ashlar font with a coved and fluted base and stiff-leaf ornament, a brass lectern dated 1890, a clergy desk from 1893, and a wooden altar rail from 1947. Original plain benches are present, two with doors. Memorials include a marble and brass war memorial tablet from 1901, and a slate tablet and roll of honour, circa 1920.