Christ Church

Christ Church is a church constructed in 1864 by T. Smith and Son, with a subsequent extension in 1907 by Oldrid Scott. It is built of knapped flint, with red and white brick and stone dressings, and has slate roofs. Originally designed as a cruciform layout with a south porch and a southeast tower, the church was extended to the north, incorporating a second, longer nave and chancel, a north transept, a northeast organ bay, and a vestry. The architectural style is High Victorian polychrome Gothic, with a simpler Free Gothic design for the 1907 extension.

The church has a six-bay nave with a one-bay chancel, and a seven-bay nave and three-bay chancel extension. The south windows have plate tracery within pointed heads, accompanied by two-stage buttresses, a plinth, red brick bands, and dentilled white brick eaves. The gabled south porch features colonnettes within the pointed arched entrance, and stopped hood moulds. The west window consists of two large pointed arches with plate tracery, topped by a central pointed arch with an octafoil opening, featuring relief figures of Christ and an angel at the center, and a foiled opening in the gable. The southeast tower has a three-stage design, with a door featuring colonnettes in the pointed arch jambs, a single light and gargoyle in the second stage, and double openings in the belfry stage above a string course, along with a nailhead eaves cornice. A broached spire with lucarnes at its base tops the tower, accompanied by a semi-circular stair turret on the east side, rising two stages and featuring slit openings.

The 1907 extension utilizes flint, sparingly dressed with stone. Nave windows are three-light windows with trefoiled heads within broader pointed arches. The west window is a delicately traceried four-light window. A pointed arched entrance, with an ovolo moulded surround and an inner traceried hollow moulding, is located on the south side, extending beyond the earlier nave. The north transept features a three-light window with geometrical tracery, with stone quoins to the west return. The organ bay, taller and further projecting to the east, also has stone quoins and similar fenestration. A one-story, flat-roofed vestry is positioned to the northeast, featuring an entrance and two two-light windows. The eastern window is of three lights, while the north and south windows in the chancel are two-light windows with tracery matching that of the west window. A semi-octagon is present at the meeting of the two chancels, equipped with coped gable parapets and kneelers.

Inside, the original 1864 church features a pointed chancel arch with short, richly carved responds and a scissor brace roof in the nave and transept. The chancel roof is ceiled with painted decoration. A double arcade connects to the later church, incorporating ornamentation consistent with the chancel arch. 1860s glass is found at the east, west, and south windows, while 20th-century glass is in other locations. The 1907 nave arcade boasts alternate octagonal and round piers, with moulded caps and bases, and roll moulded pointed arches. The chancel arch has two chamfered orders with decorative bosses. The nave roof is ceiled, and the chancel roof is ceiled with a central pointed barrel vault flanked by coved sides with tie beams. Choir stalls were added in 1909.