Christchurch

Christchurch is a red brick church with ashlar dressings, built in 1806-08. It was possibly designed by Joseph Potter of Lichfield. The roof was renewed in 1840, the floor, seating, and windows were renewed in 1880, and a north vestry was added in 1899. The church was declared redundant and closed in 1998. It has gabled and hipped Welsh slate roofs with coped gables to the nave. The church has a plinth and buttresses throughout. The 2-light pointed arched windows have mainly chamfered surrounds and panel tracery installed in 1880.

The single-bay chancel has an east window and blank sides. The aisleless nave has three windows on each side. The buttressed west tower has three stages, string courses, and a crenellated parapet, formerly with corner pinnacles. The west door has a Tudor arched head, likely inserted, with an inscription. This door head forms the sill of the west window. The first stage of the tower has clock faces to the north and west, and a round window to the south. The bell stage has pointed arched bell openings with hood moulds, wooden Y-tracery, and louvres. A north vestry and a south porch, flanking the tower, have small windows to the west; the porch window is flat-headed. The porch has a Tudor arched south door.

The interior is simply rendered. The chancel has a slightly moulded pointed arch, dying into chamfered responds, and a cornice to the ceiling. A traceried panelled wooden reredos and altar were added around 1921. A wooden communion rail dates from around 1930. The east window contains stained glass from around 1880. The nave has strutted kingpost trusses with small cusps and arch braces to wooden corbels. The east end was raised to form a choir space in 1880. There is a pointed blank arch at the west end, with a Tudor arched door. Royal Arms in relief are positioned above. A blocked door in the south porch leads to a boiler room. Stained glass to the north dates from around 1932, by Powell. Stained glass to the south, from 1909, commemorates Hamar Bass, and depicts a 19th-century house, likely his home. The porch below the tower has matchboard dado and pointed arched doors.

The church contains an inlaid octagonal wooden pulpit with stick balusters, dating from around 1808. There are plain benches and a traceried wooden lectern, dating from 1880. A lobed quatrefoil font with an inscription sits on a clustered shaft, dating from around 1900. Choir stalls, a clergy desk, and an organ console screen were added around 1933.

There are several marble and slate memorials from 1832-1881. Three hatchments from the early and mid-19th century are also present. The church forms group value with item 10019.