Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1997. Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- calm-chapel-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1997
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, Maresfield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 465 267
- Coordinates
- 51.02172, 0.08883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is a church built in 1881, with the nave and south porch designed by Rhode Hawkins. The remaining parts were commissioned by the Eckstein family, with the foundation stone laid in 1935. The church is constructed from sandstone snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and features a tiled roof. The original buildings are in the Early English style, while the additions are in the Decorated style.
The plan includes a nave with a south porch, a central tower with transepts, a chancel, and a north vestry. The three-bay nave has lancet windows, including a double lancet on the north side. The west end features three lancets with a circular window above and offset buttresses. The south door is arched and has a timber-framed gabled porch set on a sandstone base. The two-stage central tower has a crenellated parapet, a bell opening with a lancet and dripmould, blank tracery at the bottom, and an unusual staircase arrangement. The gabled transepts have double trefoliated windows, and the chancel includes three ogee-headed windows with trefoil heads. The east end has no window but features an external engraved cross, while the flat-roofed north vestry completes the structure.
Inside, the church has an arched braced roof supported on sandstone corbels and a travertine marble floor.
Local climate
Christ Church receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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