Christ Church

Christ Church is a church built between 1840 and 1841 by architect Johnson. It is constructed of brick in English bond with sandstone dressings and has a slate roof. The church features a nave, a north-west tower, and north and south aisles, all under pitched roofs, along with a lower chancel and a lean-to vestry attached to the east end of the south aisle.

The tower has clasping buttresses at the lower stage, a lancet window on the west side, and a pointed doorway on the north side, with a clock face positioned above. The bell openings are arranged in two stages, each slightly set back, and contain three narrow chamfered lancets, with stone surrounds on the lower ones. The parapet is adorned with corner pinnacles. At the west end of the nave, there is a door with a gabled stone surround and a pointed chamfered doorway, flanked by lancet windows, with a third lancet above.

Both aisles consist of five bays separated by buttresses and feature paired chamfered lancets. A pointed doorway is located at the west end of the south aisle, and both aisles have east windows with paired chamfered lancets. The east window of the chancel has triple stepped lancets.

Inside, the walls and ceiling are plastered, and there is a five-bay arcade with moulded pointed arches supported by octagonal columns. Galleries are present on three sides, and the flat ceiling features moulded transverse ribs and corbelled wall-posts, with the east end divided into square panels. The interior includes faded stencil decoration and a timber pulpit in a Gothic style. Clerestory windows contain glass dating from around 1840, while the east window is a memorial to William Chance, who died in 1856, and one of the west windows was created by Thomas William Camm of Smethwick around 1910.