Christ Church

Christ Church is a church dating from 1853-54, designed by Benjamin Ferrey. It is constructed of coursed buff rubble stone with stone dressings, has plain tiled roofs, and a stone broach spire. The church is large, comprising a west tower, nave and aisles with porches, transepts, and a chancel facing east. The west tower features angle buttresses and stone-dressed two-light windows, with a clock face on each face of the broach spire. A wooden 19th-century pentice roof extension covers the ground floor of the west front. Two-light trefoil-headed windows are found throughout the church, with lancet windows in the clerestory. An arched south door is fitted with strapwork hinges, and has finely carved bosses to its hood moulding.

The whitewashed interior features a four-bay nave arcade on round piers with moulded capitals. The tower arch has a four-step surround with crowned head corbels and a screen at the base. A painted wooden gallery is located above. The chancel arch is thin-columned, with angel figures on the outer arch moulding. The four-bay chancel includes a large, moulded arch leading to the south chancel chapel, with an organ to the north.

Notable fittings include stained glass in the east window by Sir Ninian Comper, dating from 1909. A stone bowl and stem font has supporting columns and a crocketed wooden cover. A 19th-century pulpit incorporates a sounding board and fretwork banding at the top.

Several monuments are present. On the north wall is a 1884 monument to Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, by F. J. Williamson, featuring an aedicular design with arched piers, flanking Flemish-style pilasters, floral decoration, a strapwork globe, and a finial crest, topped by a white stone bust. To Richard Drake (died 1603), located on the south aisle wall, is a “kneeler” type monument, with marble and gilt Corinthian columns, a strapwork gilt crest, a male figure in armour facing left, an inscribed plinth, and strapwork decoration below. A marble effigy of Leopold, King of the Belgians (1867), by Susan D. Durant, stands in the choir vestry; this was moved from St. George's Chapel, Windsor.