Christ Church

Christ Church is a church begun in 1852 and built in stages, with the west tower and spire completed in 1885. Designed by Ewan Christian in the revived Decorated style, it is constructed from Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings, and has a clay tile roof. The church comprises a west tower and spire, a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel, a north vestry, and an organ chamber.

The tower is divided into four stages and features angle buttresses, a moulded plinth, a moulded archway with plate tracery, and a three-light west window with trefoiled heads and a tracery circle containing trefoils. Belfry stage openings are paired two-light windows with trefoiled heads and tracery quatrefoils, with recessed timber louvres and a corbel table from which the broach spire rises. Octagonal pinnacles are at the corners of the spire and tall, narrow lucarnes are on its faces. The aisles have three-light windows, with alternate two- and three-light windows. The clerestory windows each have three equal lights with a quatrefoil above. The chancel is lower than the nave, and features a large five-light east window. A south chapel has a two-light window and arched doorway in its south wall, and a three-light window in its east wall, while the north vestry has a three-light east window.

Internally, the two westernmost bays of the nave have rooms inserted in 1970 by Laurence King. The remaining arcades have chamfered arches carried on alternate octagonal and round pillars with carved capitals, and an arch braced wooden roof with carved corbels. The floor is stone paving with red and black tiles at the east end of the nave. The chancel is raised two steps and paved, and was bare following re-ordering in 1970. Fittings include a pulpit from 1903, an original font on a square base with a circular oak cover, and stained glass by Henry Holiday in the east window, depicting The Crucifixion, flanked by Christ and Mary Magdalene in the Garden and Supper at Emmaus, and by Powell and Comper in the south chapel and north aisle respectively.