Christ Church

Christ Church is a parish church located on Guisborough Road in Great Ayton, built between 1876 and 1877 by architects Ross and Lamb. It replaces a medieval church that once stood on Low Green. The church is constructed from snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and features Welsh slate roofs with stone copings. It has a cruciform shape with aisles and a north transept tower, along with a south porch and a west narthex. The architectural style is Decorated.

The church has a four-bay nave with a porch located in the second bay, which includes an ornamental gate with wrought iron panels and a Tudor-arched inner door. The nave windows display varied tracery, and there are low stepped and sloped buttresses between them, as well as end angle buttresses. The west narthex, also known as a galilee, features eight grouped cusped windows with detached shafts, paired in the center under steep ornamental gables. It has a shouldered doorway on the south side, two traceried windows above, and a wheel window in the gable end.

The north transept tower consists of two tall stages, with sloped angle buttresses and traceried bell openings. It is topped by a spire banded in red sandstone, which includes lucarnes. The tower also has an extruded vice whose roof blends into the tower. The chancel windows and buttresses are similar to those of the nave, with all windows featuring hoodmoulds adorned with leafy stops.

Inside, the church has a five-bay arcade supported by alternate round and octagonal piers, which have carved capitals and high drum bases. The roll-moulded arches are set under hoodmoulds, while the chancel arch features multiple rolls and rests on corbels. The walls are plastered, and the roof is an arch-braced wood barrel, with the chancel being panelled and painted. The chancel also includes traceried panelling and a reredos.