Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1981. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- inner-niche-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood MP: Helen Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1981
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, Highland Road Se19, SE19 1DP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 333 709
- Coordinates
- 51.42158, -0.08377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is a church built in 1867 by John Giles, and later extended in 1889. It is constructed of Kentish ragstone in a crazy paving pattern, with freestone dressings. The design is in the French 13th-century Gothic style, characterized by plate tracery and flat buttresses. The original church comprises a nave, aisles, and a short, apsidal chancel. In 1889, a vestry, porch, and a four-stage north-west tower were added. The tower has a short, pyramidal slated spire and angle turrets, with long, paired bell openings. The six-bay nave features polished grey granite columns with foliated capitals, while similar short, attached columns form corbels for the roof and chancel arch. Long red granite shafts support the ribs of the apse. The interior features plastered walls and handsome timber roofs, alongside modern chancel panelling and choir stalls. There is interesting stained glass in the south aisle.
Local climate
Christ Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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