Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1981. Church.

Christ Church

WRENN ID
riven-shingle-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Gloucestershire
Constituency
Filton and Bradley Stoke MP: Claire Hazelgrove (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 July 1981
Type
Church
Address
Christ Church, Downend Road, Downend and Bromley Heath
OS grid reference
ST 649 764
Coordinates
51.48632, -2.50596
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Christ Church was built in 1831 by local architect Oliver Greenway, with the chancel added in 1914. The church is constructed of coursed pennant rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof, with the chancel having tiled roofing. The west end has a coped gable with side pinnacles and a two-light belfry topped with a pierced spirelet. It includes angle buttresses and two side lancets. The central three-light pointed window has intersecting tracery, and there is a Tudor arch doorway with panelled doors and a carved spandrel. The nave is five bays long, featuring an ashlar parapet, three-light lancets with intersecting tracery, and headstops to the labels, along with dividing buttresses. The chancel is two bays, and there is a tower vestry to the north-east and a tower chapel to the south-east. A rose window is located on the east side. The most prominent feature is the panelled screen above the chancel arch, which has side belfries and pierced spirelets. The interior is designed as a wide auditorium type.

Local climate

Christ Church receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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