Christ Church

STOKE ON TRENT

SJ84SE ALBERT SQUARE, Fenton 613-1/6/39 (South side) 07/03/89 Christ Church

GV II

Parish Church. 1890-1, the tower built 1899. Designed by Charles Lynam. Red and blue brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Decorated style, with west tower, nave with aisles and clerestory, chancel with south chapel and north vestry. West tower of 4 unequal stages with angle buttresses and stair turret. Paired shouldered west doors in a single stone archway with low relief figure of Christ in the tympanum. 3-light Decorated windows over, and paired bell chamber lights. White brick arcade beneath embattled parapet. Coped gabled porch to south, and aisle of 5 bays divided by gableted buttresses, with 3-light windows. Paired 2-light windows in clerestory. South chancel chapel of 3 bays, with chancel clerestory above. Ornate east window to south chapel, with cusping to hood mould. East window of chancel of 5-lights, with a small window over. North aisle similar to south, with vestry to east, running at right angles to main axis of church. INTERIOR: 6-bay arcade with alternating octagonal and cylindrical shafts with foliate capitals. Queen post roof with traceried panelling. Wide chancel arch carried on corbels, with niches to each side; the chancel faced with stone. Carved reredos, wood screen and pulpit. Stained glass windows in north aisle, 1902. (The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Pugh R B: Staffordshire: Oxford: 1963-).

Listing NGR: SJ8909744495