Christ Church

Christ Church is an Anglican church dating from 1872, designed by Charles Eaglesfield. It is built in the Early English style. The church is constructed of rusticated local red sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has pitched and pyramidal roofs covered with alternating fish-scale and plain Welsh slate. Decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials adorn the roofs.

The church is prominently situated on the harbourside, with its west end facing the harbour. The nave is flanked by an apsidal chancel to the east, a south aisle, a west tower with a spire, and a north-east vestry. The nave, south aisle, and west end feature moulded eaves cornices and a coped plinth, while the tower stages are separated by ashlar bands.

The chancel has a semi-circular apse with six lancet windows and a semi-pyramidal roof. The north wall of the nave contains three plate-tracery windows: one single lancet and two paired lancets. A double-height vestry obscures the chancel. The south aisle has a full-height gabled end bay with a three-light plate-tracery window with foils, and two sets of paired lancets to the left. The three-stage west tower includes a south entrance designed to resemble a tall plate-tracery window, with a moulded surround terminating in head stops. It features a circular motif surmounted by a recessed blind quatrefoil, and paired shoulder-arched doorways below. A single lancet is present on the ground floor west face. The first stage of the tower has a band of three circular windows, and the second stage displays paired louvered belfry windows. The broach spire has a clock face on each of its four sides, set within gabled frames, and is topped with a cross finial. The gabled west end of the nave has a triple-stepped lancet window, with a circular opening containing a cinquefoil window at the apex, and a cross finial along the ridge.

Inside, the collar-tie-truss roof structure has exposed purlins and rafters supported by stone corbels. The lower walls of the sanctuary are panelled, and a timber reredos is present. The six lancet windows above have short shafts, moulded heads and jambs, linked by a continuous hood mould, and contain late 19th-century stained glass. The pointed-arched arcade of the south aisle rests on squat circular columns with moulded capitals. Shoulder-arched openings connect the sanctuary to the vestry and the south aisle to a side entrance. A moulded band runs along the nave, and the windows have label-moulds. The belfry houses a flatbed clock with its original wheel and stay for ringing; the clock face is inscribed "Wilson, Maryport." A steel bell, made by Vickers in Sheffield, is also present, with part of the company inscription “S LIMITED” visible.