Christ Church

Christ Church is an Anglican church dating to 1847-8, designed by Thomas Allom, with a nave extension added in 1872. The church is constructed of dressed Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings, and has a slate roof. It comprises a chancel, nave, north and south transepts, all with aisles and clerestories, arranged around an octagonal crossing, and includes a tower with a spire located in the angle of the nave and north transept. The five-sided apsidal chancel has two-light windows and two-bay aisles. The north and south transepts each feature a gabled porch with paired pointed arches topped with quatrefoils, and a three-light window with bar tracery above. The nave has five bays with two-light windows to the aisles, and a porch in the western bay. The clerestory features single trefoiled lights, with the centre light blank. The blocked central entrance on the west end is topped by a three-light window.

The interior sanctuary features blank arcading on triple colonnettes, with foliage carvings and emblems of the evangelists in the spandrels. The choir opens into a central octagon, with an arcade of octagonal columns supporting multi-moulded pointed arches. The nave now consists of two bays, and includes a late 20th-century gallery. Arches are corbelled from halfway up the principal arcade between the chancel, nave and transepts, connecting to the central octagon. A timber roof features arched braces rising from wall shafts, with angels and foliage carved as corbels. Decorative trusses are located at the centre of the octagon. The aisles of the transepts and nave have wall shafts. A blank four-bay arcade with crocketed gables and a Tudor-arched doorway is located in the north aisle. The two western bays of the nave have been divided into two floors. The octagonal stone pulpit, now painted to match the stonework, has a trefoiled Gothic arcade.