Christchurch is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Church.
Christchurch
- WRENN ID
- woven-tin-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christchurch, Bulkington
- OS grid reference
- ST 940 583
- Coordinates
- 51.3246, -2.08685
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christchurch is an Anglican parish church built in 1860 by T. Cundy. The church is constructed of coursed rubble stone and features a pantiled roof with coped verges and cross finials. It consists of a nave and chancel, with a west bellcote positioned above the entrance. The entrance has a planked west door set in a moulded surround with attached shafts, and a moulded string course that extends as a hoodmould, topped by a six-point star-shaped window. The steeply gabled ashlar bellcote has a pointed opening.
On the south side of the nave, there are four pointed 2-light windows adorned with 14th-century style geometric tracery, along with buttresses that have offsets. The north side features three 2-light windows and a lean-to vestry that includes a shouldered doorway and a stack to the east. The chancel has two 2-light windows on both the south and north sides, and a 3-light window at the east end, with flush flanking buttresses.
Inside, there is an entrance lobby at the west end. The nave boasts a 4-bay deep arch-braced collar truss roof supported by stone corbels, with exposed rafters featuring chamfered soffits and a polychrome tiled floor. The chancel arch is plain and chamfered, adorned with a painted Biblical inscription, and there is an open screen. The chancel ceiling is planked, and the floor is also covered in polychrome tiles.
Fittings include original 19th-century seating in the nave and chancel, a wooden polygonal pulpit, and an octagonal stone font on a pedestal. There are stone prayer boards flanking the altar and a benefaction board from 1724 on the west wall of the nave, which commemorates a gift from Joan White.
Local climate
Christchurch receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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