Christ Church, Church Road, Lisnasliggan, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 5AU

Christ Church is a single-cell Church of Ireland church in Gothic style, constructed between 1859 and 1861 and consecrated on 7 November 1861. It stands on a sloping rural site at the corner of a sharp bend in Church Road, north of the village of Annaclone in County Down, opposite the listed former rectory (now Annaclone House, HB17/08/007B).

The church has a rectangular plan with an abutting porch and vestry. It is built of squared uncoursed masonry with a battered base and tooled sandstone quoins, topped by sandstone coping, kneelers, and moulded gable shoulders. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with clay ridge tiles, supported on moulded masonry eaves brackets with ogee-moulded cast-iron rainwater goods.

The principal south elevation is asymmetrically arranged with three equally spaced pointed-arched windows with cast-iron lattice lights, margins, and rubble voussoirs over chamfered long-and-short jambs and cills. A gabled porch to the left contains a pointed-arched timber sheeted door with studs and wrought-iron strap hinges set in a chamfered long-and-short sandstone surround. Storage to the left is accessed via masonry steps leading to a segmental arched diminutive door beneath the porch. The left gable is symmetrically arranged with two tall lancet-arched windows and a central oculus in the gable head, surmounted by an ashlar bell-cote containing a bell.

The north elevation is asymmetrically arranged with three windows to the left and a single-storey lean-to vestry comprising diminished-scale windows to the front and left. The vestry's right cheek has a timber sheeted square-headed door with wrought-iron ironmongery and a corbelled lintel in long-and-short sandstone surround. The right gable is symmetrically arranged with one tall lancet-arched window flanked by two slightly smaller windows, and features an apex stone with gablets. All windows are uPVC.

The interior remains largely unaltered and retains its simple character. In 1896, the east window, porch, and vestry room were added. The building now houses aluminium radiators and modern furnishings typical of later church usage.

The church occupies a sloping site bounded by hedgerows and wire fencing, with burial grounds to the north and east. Pedestrian access to the north is via a wrought-iron gate with cast-iron piers. Vehicular access to the east is through wrought-iron gates with cast-iron fittings mounted on chamfer-stopped masonry rendered piers topped by moulded and pyramidal caps. A terraced landscape to the south incorporates masonry steps marking the level change adjacent to the principal entrance. A yew-tree lined gravel driveway approaches from the south.

Christ Church was built to replace an earlier church located in the nearby townland of Ardbrin, which had been rebuilt in 1806. The original Ardbrin church, described by the Ordnance Survey Memoirs as a roughcast and whitewashed stone building approximately 50 and a half feet long and 17 feet broad, accommodated around 300 people but averaged only 100 in attendance due to the parish's predominantly Presbyterian and Roman Catholic population, with Established Church members comprising only one twenty-fifth of the population. The Glebe House adjacent to the new church, a gift from the Marquis of Downshire, served as the rectory until circa 1902.

The original Ardbrin church was demolished around 1859, and the new building in Lisnasliggan was erected in 1859–61. A datestone inscribed '1860' indicates the church opened for worship prior to its formal consecration. The layout depicted on the 1859 Ordnance Survey map matches the completed building. Griffith's Valuation of 1862 valued the church at £19, a figure maintained through the Annual Revisions until 1929.

The church was demolished by William Fullerton of Armagh (1805–1867), thought to have worked for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Fullerton's known works were all churches in south-east Ulster, and it is believed he likely designed Christ Church as well as demolishing its predecessor.

In 1902, when the congregation was amalgamated with the Parish Church of Magherally, the Glebe House passed into private ownership. The church remains in use for worship, joined with Magherally Parish, and was listed in 1977. Despite some inappropriate modern modifications, the building is a good example of a simple rural church retaining its original setting and stylistic coherence with the adjacent former rectory, providing valuable historical context to the landscape.