Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- buried-oriel-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, Church Lane, Biddulph
- OS grid reference
- SJ 907 583
- Coordinates
- 53.12209, -2.14028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is a Chapel of Ease built in 1863 by Ward & Ford. It features coursed stone construction and a blue machine tile roof with a banded and patterned crested ridge and verge parapets. The church is designed in a Neo-Norman style and includes a west porch, nave, chancel, vestry, and north transept.
The nave consists of five bays divided by pilaster buttresses on a roll-moulded plinth. It has round-arch single-light windows set in slight recesses, which are corbelled over to an eaves band. The west end features a gabled belfry above a rose window, flanked by two small round-arched windows with corbelled imposts. The gabled central porch has a round-arch entry with a roll-moulded intrados to the imposts.
The lower apsidal chancel has three windows similar to those in the nave and features pseudo-machiolated eaves. The vestry is a gabled single-storey structure with one bay, while the transept is lower than the nave and also consists of one bay.
Local climate
Christ Church receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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