Christ Church

SJ 85 SE; 613-1/2/162

STOKE ON TRENT, TUNSTALL, High Street (east side)

Christ Church

II

Parish Church, a Commissioners Church of 1831-2. By Francis Bedford, with extensions by A R Wood. Faced with coursed and squared rubble, with Welsh slate roofs. West tower with flanking aisles to nave, aisle chapels and enlarged chancel of 1884. West tower of three stages, with west doorway in chamfered arch with simple hood mould. Lancet light and clock over, and paired bell chamber lights. Angle buttresses form cusped finials to parapet. Blind west windows to aisles, which are divided into bays by thin pilaster buttresses with gablets, each bay containing paired lancet windows. South door with moulded arch beneath angled hood mould suggesting vestigial gable. South aisle chapel, and chancel with 5-light Decorated east window with panelled frieze below and central buttress with gablet. North vestry.

INTERIOR: the church has a single span Queen-strut roof. West gallery, and chancel arch with marble shafts carried on corbels. Boarded ceiling in chancel, painted with quatrefoil frieze. Stained glass and fittings (altar, reredos etc) are early C20.

Listing NGR: SJ8595351719