Christ Church

TIDCOMBE AND FOSBURY FOSBURY SU 35 NW 10/206 Christ Church 10.7.78 GV II* Anglican Parish church. 1854-6, by S.S. Teulon. Flint with Bath stone dressings, tiled roof. Nave and chancel in 1 vessel. South- west porch with steeple. North chancel vestry. 6 bays. Entrance under tower; ogee hood with vine leaf crockets, double nook shafts and naturalistic foliage capitals. Tower buttresses gabled. Windows 2-light with varied Decorated tracery and relieving arches of alternating tile and glazed brick. Chancel buttresses gabled. 5-light east window, 4-light west window. Ashlar panel below east end. Tower of 3 stages, bellstage with pierced transennae. Tall machicolated parapet with carved panels. Octagonal stair tower in re-entrant against nave, rises to spirelet engorged with crown. Interior: 6 bay open timber roof, trusses bracketed to wall corbels in nave, hammer beam to 2 trusses of chancel which also have scalloped windbraces. Chancel raised 2 steps. Inscription over windows, these with grisaille glass. Fittings: Font, stone, octagonal, with small bowl. Furniture: Pulpit, reading desk, choir stalls and pews, and communion rail all oak. Altar removed. The church is redundant.

Listing NGR: SU3142158609