Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-alcove-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, East Stour
- OS grid reference
- ST 798 228
- Coordinates
- 51.00456, -2.28831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is a parish church built in 1842 by G. Alexander. It features ashlar walls with greensand ashlar dressings and has slate, gable-ended roofs with stone copings. The church has a cruciform plan, which includes a central tower, and is designed in the 'neo-Norman' style. The layout consists of a nave, chancel, crossing, north and south transepts, a south vestry, and a north porch.
The standard windows are single, round-headed lights with shafted jambs and cushion capitals. More significant windows consist of two round-headed lights with shafted jambs and central piers that also have cushion capitals, topped with an outer round arch featuring similar shafted jambs. The east window contains three round-headed lights, with the innermost light having shafted jambs. Minor windows are single round-headed lights. The round-headed doorways are of two orders, with the inner order supported on a scalloped capital shaft and the outer on a cushioned capital shaft.
There are octagonal vice turrets to the west of each transept, which have shouldered doorways and round-headed loops. The chancel and tower have simple corbel tables. Inside, the church features round crossing arches that spring from shafts with scalloped capitals, galleries with wooden, round-arched balustrades in the transepts, beamed roofs in the chancel and transepts, and a tie beam nave roof supported by columns carrying round arches from the tie beams.
The church also contains a 12th-century square font with arcading on a central round shaft supported by four shafts, along with 19th-century pews and pulpit, and 19th-century glass.
Local climate
Christ Church receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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