Christ Church

Christ Church is a substantial church in the Early Decorated style, likely dating to the 18th century. It is constructed of green rubble stone with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. The building comprises a nave, aisles, chancel, and a large, prominent south-west tower topped with a spire. The tower has coped gables and buttresses with set-offs, extending nearly to the top. The spire is octagonal, of the East Midlands type, featuring gabled lucarnes on the cardinal faces and smaller lucarnes above on the diagonal faces. A projecting stair turret is located to the left of the west front, square at its base with a gabled doorway, broadening to an octagonal form with a gabled front pier, and then featuring trefoil-headed blind arcading beneath a stone, octagonal cap. The west window is large, with plate tracery, set above a sill course, with a mid-buttress positioned between two smaller windows. A stepped buttress and lean-to aisle extend from the north side, with the tower to the right. The nave has six bays, with a clerestory featuring spherical-triangle lights. The south side has five windows over the lean-to aisle, incorporating a porch to the left and a progression of three two-light windows and one three-light window. The chancel has a two-window south aisle and a lean-to vestry; a traceried window head is situated above the vestry. The east window is large, a five-light design with a sexfoil roundel in the head. The north side of the chancel features a two-light window followed by a lean-to organ chamber with a two-light north window and a three-light window to the east. The north aisle has six two-light windows, placed in pairs between buttresses.

The church features elaborate detail, including naturalistic foliage carved into the stone. The nave roof is a six-bay structure with arch-braced trusses supported by stone carved corbelled wall-shafts, with intermediate trusses lacking corbels. The ashlar arcade has alternate octagonal and round shafts, with pointed arches. A moulded chancel arch sits atop corbelled wall-shafts. A substantial drum font has a recessed, inscribed band around a squat centre shaft and four marble outer shafts. The ashlar panelled octagonal pulpit is accessed by stone steps. The chancel incorporates ashlar features on either side; to the left is an organ recess, and to the right, a screened vestry, framed by two arches on carved corbels and a central column, all beneath a broad, segmental-pointed blank arch. The chancel roof is a four-bay design, supported by carved corbels. The floor is tiled. Two steps lead to iron sanctuary rails, and three steps are within the sanctuary, incorporating patterned encaustic tiles. The church contains 20th-century wood panelling behind the altar, and 1856 stalls with poppyhead ends and arcaded panelled backs. Stained glass is present throughout, including a large five-light east window from 1892 featuring Michelangelesque figures and Gothic tabernacles, and patterned glass from 1856 by N.W. Lavers in the chancel side windows. The west end contains royal arms from 1856 in an apex quatrefoil, alongside late Pre-Raphaelite glass in the two small two-light windows, installed after 1917. A sixth window in the north aisle is dedicated to St Michael and St David and serves as a memorial to the Second World War.