Christ Church

Christ Church is a church built between 1863 and 1865 by architect J. L. Pearson, commissioned by Mrs. J. Shepherd as a memorial to her husband. The church is constructed from dressed limestone with ashlar dressings, featuring Mansfield stone column shafts and Rosedale ironstone details inside. It has a slate roof and is designed in the High Victorian Gothic style. The structure includes a three-bay aisled nave with a narthex, an apsidal chancel, a mortuary chapel to the north, and a square southeast tower topped with a pyramidal spire.

The church has lancet windows throughout, with the exception of a rose window in the west gable. A string course runs around the nave, chancel, and chapel at the level of the west door impost. There are ashlar bands and a band of sunk quatrefoils at the springing level of the nave windows. The narthex projects beneath a pent roof between buttresses and features an entrance arch with three orders and attached shafts with foliate capitals. The apse contains shafted lancets set into an arcade on detached shafts of Mansfield stone, also with foliate capitals.

The tower has two-light bell openings with attached shafts and lucarnes. Inside, the nave arcade is supported by square-section piers with embedded shafts at the angles, annulets, and foliate capitals. Decorative inlaid Rosedale ironstone banding and motifs are present throughout. There is arcading on detached shafts at the apse and aisle windows, and the roof is a wooden braced king post design. Original fittings include a pulpit, font, reredos, stained glass, and a richly painted organ.