Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1983. Church.

Christ Church

WRENN ID
calm-panel-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Test Valley
Constituency
North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 June 1983
Type
Church
Address
Christ Church, Smannell Road
OS grid reference
SU 380 489
Coordinates
51.23833, -1.45666
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Christ Church, built in 1857 and 1894 by William White, is located on Smannell Road in Andover. This church features a single cell nave and chancel, with a half-hexagon apse. There is an arcade on the north side of the nave that leads to the north aisle, which was rebuilt in 1894, and a transept, along with a small vestry and a south porch.

The exterior has a simple tile roof that is hipped at the east end and gabled over the aisle, transept, and west end, where the nave gable is raised to create a staged belfry. The walls are constructed of flint, accented with brick bands, quoins, jambs, stepped buttresses, and a moulded plinth on the buttresses. The windows feature one, two, and three lights, with stonework used for cusped heads, plate tracery, and mullions. The porch is notable for its heavy timber-framing set on a high brick wall with stepped buttresses.

Inside, the walls are made of yellow brick with red brick bands and dado. The pointed arches are created from several brick bands and rest on plain tapered square caps above slender, short columns. The roof showcases open timber-framing, ceiled above the collar level. Additional features include a plain octagonal stone font, wrought-iron candelabra, dado panelling in the apse, and four panels of the Prescriptions from the early 19th century at the west end.

Local climate

Christ Church receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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