Christ Church

In the entry for

2/87 ANDOVER SMANNELL ROAD Christchurch The entry shall be amended to read:

SMANNELL ROAD Christ Church

------------------------------------ SU 34 NE ANDOVER SMANNELL ROAD 2/87 Christchurch II 1857, and 1894, by William White. Single cell nave and chancel, with half-hexagon apse; arcade on the north side of the nave giving onto the north aisle (rebuilt 1894) and a transept, small vestry, south porch. Externally, the tile roof is of simple form, hipped at the east end and gabled to aisle, transept and west end, where the nave gable is raised, to form a staged belfry. Walling is of flint with a series of brick bands, quoins, jambs, stepped buttresses, and plinth (moulded on buttresses). Windows of 1.2 and 3 lights, with stonework used for cusped heads, plate tracery and mullions. The porch has heavy timber-framing, on a high brick wall with stepped buttresses. Within, the yellow brick walling has red brick bands and dado, the pointed arches are formed of several brick bands and rest on plain tapered square caps, above slender but short columns. The roof has open timber-framing, ceiled above the collar level. Plain octagonal stone font; wrought-iron candelabra, dado panelling to the apse, and at the west end 4 panels of the Prescriptions (of the early Cl9).

Listing NGR: SU3656546197