Church Of Christ Church

The Church of Christ Church is an Anglican parish church built in 1844 by James Wilson. It features squared lias stone over an ashlar plinth and limestone dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The church has a wide nave, a shallow chancel, a west tower, a south porch, and an organ chamber with a vestry to the north. Designed in a simple early English style, it includes lancet windows under hoods; the nave has one window on the south side and three on the north, with diagonal buttresses at the corners and a square section between the windows, all supported by two offsets. The gabled porch has diagonal buttresses and inner plank doors. The chancel contains a single light window on the south, a stepped triplet on the east, and two single windows on the north, also with diagonal buttresses. The organ chamber has a crenellated flat roof, lancet windows on the east and west, and a plank door in a pointed double chamfer surround on the north side, leading to three nave lancets without intermediate buttresses, and a diagonal buttress at the corner. The tower is in two stages with crenellation, featuring a blocked doorway to the west lancet at the first level and paired lancets at the bell stage above a moulded string, topped with crenellations over another moulded string.

Inside, the church has a very simple unaisled space with colour-washed walls and plain reveals to the lancet windows. There is a two-arch arcade leading to the organ chamber with double chamfer arches on octagonal columns. The ceiling features five-bay arch-braced queen post trusses with turned dropped finials, supported by corbels on the north side only. The tower has a simple chamfer arch, and there is a single chamfer arch on slender responds with stiff-leaf capitals. The chancel has a plain boarded pitched ceiling. A memorial window from 1874 is located on the south side of the chancel, while the east windows, signed by A K Nicholson of London in 1931, are dedicated to Mary Monica Cunliffe Wills. The church contains a stone altar table, a Jacobean oak altar table in the nave, and a Jacobean parish chest. The chancel and tower have tiled floors, while the rest of the church features wood block flooring. There are simple late 19th-century pews, a good brass lectern, and a complex font with eight attached colonnettes. The overall interior is described as very basic and clinical.