Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. A Victorian Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- former-gutter-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Christ Church, King Sterndale, High Peak
- OS grid reference
- SK 093 717
- Coordinates
- 53.24233, -1.8618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is a church built in 1847 by Ignatius Bonomi. It is constructed of rubble limestone with gristone dressings, featuring quoins, coped gables, and a stone slated roof. The church has a narrow, aisless nave with a gabled bellcote at the southwest end, a southwest gabled porch, and a lower chancel that includes a shallow pitched lean-to vestry on the southeast side. The windows are simple lancets in the early English style, with quoined surrounds. The lancets on the northeast wall of the chancel have heads linked by a continuous hoodmould that rises above each of the three lancet heads. There are clasping buttresses on the chancel gable and a stepped buttress between the windows on the northwest wall of the nave. A stepped buttress is also present at the center of the southwest gable, along with a stone chimney. Inside, 20th-century stained glass windows commemorate various members of the Pickford family, who were the founders of the carrier service and lived at Kingsterndale Hall.
Local climate
Christ Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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