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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1997
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 42 NE 995/19/10042
MARESFIELD FAIRWARP Christ Church
II
Church. 1881 nave and south porch by Rhode Hawkins with remainder commissioned by the Eckstein family, the foundation stone laid in 1935. Sandstone snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and tiled roof. STYLE: original buildings in Early English style, additions in Decorated style. PLAN: nave with south porch, central tower with transepts, chancel and north vestry. EXTERIOR: 3 bay nave has lancets including double lancet to north side. West end has three lancets with circular window above and offset buttresses. Arched south door with timber-framed gabled porch on sandstone base. 2-stage central tower with crenellated parapet, bell opening with lancet with dripmould and wooden shutters, blank tracery at the bottom and unusual arrangement of staircase. Gabled transepts with double trefoliated window. Chancel has three ogee-headed windows with trefoil heads. East end has no window but external engraved cross. Flat-roofed north vestry. INTERIOR: arched braced roof supported on sandstone corbels and travertine marble floor. (Sources: Pevsner N: The Buildings of England: Sussex: 499)
Listing NGR: TQ4659626782
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