Christ Church

Christ Church is a parish church built between 1846 and 1847 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is constructed from ragstone and features a slate roof and a shingled spire. The church has a nave with aisles, a chancel that includes a south chapel, and a north-eastern tower, all designed in the Early English style. The exterior includes a continuous plinth with buttresses, a three-stage tower with corner buttresses, a broach spire, and quatrefoil openings with a clock face above. The nave has paired lancets, some of which have quatrefoils above them, and there are gabled porches on the north, west, and south sides with hood-moulded arched doorways.

Inside, the church has a high and broad nave arcade with four bays, featuring double chamfered arches on round piers and a roof supported by three crown posts. The north aisle is blocked and rendered, with a boarded central doorway and a double arched plank and stud door to the west, and it has been converted into vestry and parish rooms. The chancel arch is double chamfered, and the aisles have trussed rafter roofs, with double chamfered arches leading to the chapel and the ground floor of the tower. The chancel features double chamfered arches to the north and hollow chamfered octagonal responds to the south, with trussed rafter roofs throughout. The chancel lancets have shafted and moulded reveals.

Notable fittings include a trefoil-headed arcaded reredos with five central bays that have triangular heads, trefoil arcaded altar rails, a brass lectern dated 1885, and a pulpit with a stone coved base, arcaded sides, and marble colonettes and handrail, with the base dated at least 1922. There are also some mid-19th century furnishings and original tiled floors. The church was part of a development scheme by James Creed Eddel for Vale Square, with William Saxby as the builder or developer.