Christ Church

Christ Church is a parish church built between 1870 and 1871 by Cory & Ferguson. It features large split grey granite boulders, which were brought as ballast in ships from Ireland, set on a chamfered plinth, with limestone string courses, quoins, and dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate with bands of greenslate, decorative ridge tiles, coped gables, and cross finials. The church is aligned northeast to southwest and includes a three-storey west tower and porch with a broach spire, a five-bay nave, aisles with transepts, and a semicircular apse. The tower has a pointed entrance arch made up of three orders on granite shaft columns, with quatrefoil openings on the first floor and two-light pointed openings above, the western one filled by a clock face. The spire features small lucarnes. The nave has two-light aisle windows and clerestory rose windows in pointed recesses, while the apse has tall lancet windows. Inside, all walls display decorative brickwork in red and yellow bands. The five-bay aisles are supported by stone columns with uncarved capitals and pointed brick arches. The church contains late 19th-century furnishings and fittings, as well as late 19th-century stained glass in the ritual west and east windows.