Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Church.

Christ Church

WRENN ID
tattered-basalt-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
New Forest National Park
Constituency
New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
Church
Address
Christ Church, Lyndhurst
OS grid reference
SU 287 083
Coordinates
50.87404, -1.59339
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Christ Church is a church built in 1864 by W. Butterfield. It features red brick with blue brick diaperwork and stone bands, along with a plain tile roof. The layout includes a chancel with two gabled projections on the north side and one on the south, and a long nave with a northwest porch and a west bellcote, reflecting a later Early English style.

The east end showcases diaper work on a high plinth, which has a heavy stone offset that acts as a sill for a five-stepped trefoiled lancet window. There are three blue brick bands on either side of the head quatrefoil, and diaperwork in the gable is complemented by raised dentilled eaves. The low-down diaperwork on both northern projections includes one with a shouldered-head lancet and the other with a pointed two-trefoiled-light window, while the south projection is similar.

The nave has heavy stone offsets to the plinth on both sides, serving as sills for the trefoiled lancets. A stone band runs across at the springing level. There is a lancet in the east bay and one in the west of the center bay, with two in the east of the center bay flanked by buttresses. The northwest porch features low sloping buttresses at the corners and stone kneelers on the gable wall, with a pointed doorway beneath a label. The gable displays diaperwork, and the diamond shapes created by it resemble dove nests. A three-light trefoiled window is located at the west, and the gabled west bellcote has some decorative elements.

The interior reflects Butterfield's restrained style, with a roof featuring thin scissor bracing to the principals, which have open cusp work above.

Local climate

Christ Church receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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