Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- grey-keep-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, Main Road, Long Load, TA10 9LA
- OS grid reference
- ST 464 231
- Coordinates
- 51.00547, -2.764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is an Anglican parish church located on Main Road, built between 1854 and 1856 by C.E. Giles. It replaced a chapel that was first recorded in 1418. The church is constructed from local lias stone that has been cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings. It features bands of plain and scalloped clay tiles between stepped coped gables topped with cross finials. The building has a two-cell plan consisting of a two-bay chancel and a five-bay nave, along with a south porch and a lean-to vestry on the north-east side, capped with a spirelet.
Designed in a 13th-century revival style, the chancel includes a plinth, a cill course, and double corner buttresses. The east window is a three-light geometric traceried window under a pointed arched label with unworked steps. The south side has one single and one two-light window that match the east window. The vestry features two small cusped lancets on the east wall, plain windows on the north, and a pointed arched doorway with a curl stop label on the west wall. There is also a decorated chimney on the north wall of the chancel, which has a two-light window to the west of the vestry.
The nave has similar architectural details, including bay buttresses and two-light geometric traceried windows on both the north and south walls, along with a sub-arcuated four-light west window. The south porch showcases a 13th-century style moulded outer arch in the gable, with a simpler arch inside. The spirelet is located on the north-east corner of the nave, resting on an octagonal base with a plinth and stepped offsets just above the eaves level. Each face of the spirelet features a lancet with tracery infill, topped with a stepped stone steeplet and iron cross finials.
The interior was not accessible during the survey in July 1985. While Pevsner notes that there is nothing of interest inside, the Victoria County History refers to a Jacobean pulpit that survives from the former chapel.
Local climate
Christ Church receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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