Christ Church

Christ Church is an Anglican parish church built between 1839 and 1840 by architects T.H. Wyatt and D. Brandon. It is constructed of squared rubble stone with ashlar dressings and features a low-pitched Bridgwater tile roof with coped shouldered gables at the east ends of the nave and chancel. The church showcases a simple Perpendicular Gothic style, consisting of a broad unaisled nave, a shallow chancel, and a thin west tower topped with a recessed octagonal spire.

The tower includes a Tudor-arched west door, a long mullion-and-transom window above with blank upper lights and a hoodmould, two-light bell-openings, and a parapet with stepped battlements. Shallow clasping buttresses and small canted projections are present on the west wall of the nave. The nave has five square-headed two-light windows, with buttresses in between, and a shouldered gabled south porch. The chancel features a stepped parapet above a projecting south porch and a three-light segmental-pointed east window.

Inside, the church remains almost unaltered, with a plain west gallery, broad nave roof trusses, and a flat-roofed chancel. The chancel walls are canted in from the nave, supported by angle shafts that carry curved wooden brackets. A canted wall to the right contains a stone Gothic pulpit accessed by stairs within the wall. The east window, dedicated to Mrs. Lysley who died in 1865, is brightly coloured, along with another stained window for J. Spencer who died in 1881; the remaining windows feature patterned quarries and coloured borders.

In the churchyard, which is not included in the listing, are the tombs of the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845-1927) and the Marchioness (died 1932). The 5th Marquess served as Governor General of Canada from 1883 to 1888, Viceroy of India from 1888 to 1894, and Foreign Secretary from 1900 to 1905.