Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. A Medieval Church. 7 related planning applications.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- peeling-arch-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1951
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Christ Church, Northcourt Road, Abingdon on Thames, OX14 1PL
- OS grid reference
- SU 501 983
- Coordinates
- 51.68155, -1.27601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church, originally built by Abingdon Abbey around 1270, has medieval origins. The structure features rubble walls with ashlar quoins and deep interior window splays. The west exterior wall is buttressed, and at the north end, there is an ashlar stone gabled porch with a stone chamfered segmental headed doorway, stone coping, angle buttresses, and remnants of an ancient stone slate roof. The roof is now tiled and mostly renewed, supported by six bays of an arch-brace tie beam roof, likely from the 16th century. The building underwent significant alterations when it was converted for church use in 1961, with modern extensions added to the east.
Local climate
Christ Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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