Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1984. Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- endless-trefoil-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, Church Road, Gretton
- OS grid reference
- SP 006 305
- Coordinates
- 51.97334, -1.99259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is an Anglican parish church built in the late 19th century, designed by John Drayton Wyatt and funded primarily by Emma Dent of Sudeley Castle. The church is constructed from squared yellow limestone with flush cream limestone dressings and features a stone slate roof with coped gables at the west end and at the junction with the chancel, which has cross terminals. The structure includes a nave, a chancel with a hexagonal east end and five gablets above the windows, a south transept, a south tower over the porch, and a vestry, all designed in a style consistent with the mid to late 13th century.
The tower is divided into three stages and topped with an octagonal spire. It features a doorway with three orders and plain chamfered responds, along with a 2-light cusped plate window above a string course. The clock is set diagonally on a square face, and the base stage of the spire has offset buttresses on four non-cardinal points, with lancets that have trefoil heads and quatrefoil drips with leaf stops, as well as a moulded cornice at the base of the spire. The windows are generally paired lancets with trefoil heads under drips, and the apse contains lancets with trefoil heads beneath trefoil openings. The west end has two 2-light windows under a sexfoil in plate, with a central shaft, all beneath a simple stepped string. The inner doors of the porch are adorned with five decorative strap hinges.
Inside, the nave features a scissors plus collar roof, while the chancel has a rich arch-braced roof and tiled floors. Short shafts on brackets support a moulded chancel arch, and there is a flat open arch to the vestry on the left side of the chancel. Most original fittings remain in their original locations.
Local climate
Christ Church receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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