Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 April 1992. A Medieval Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- peeling-brick-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1992
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Christ Church is a church building likely dating from the 18th century, exhibiting group value. The church consists of a nave with a lean-to south aisle and a gabled north aisle, alongside a tower surmounted by an impressive octagonal stone spire. The exterior is constructed from buff rock-faced coursed stone with freestone dressings, and features slate roofs banded in purple and green over the nave and south aisle.
The tower, situated in the angle between the nave and south aisle, rises over three stages. The bell stage transitions to the octagonal spire, which features alternating broaches and trefoil windows on the faces of the octagon. The tower incorporates a diagonal buttress and a clasping projection to the left, containing stairs. Tall freestone banding runs up the spire. The west window of the nave has four cinquefoil lights with Kentish tracery. A buttress separates it from the west window of the aisle, which has three trefoil lights and circular tracery above. The north aisle has three two-light windows, one of which is similar to that on the right side of the porch. The gabled porch has steps leading up to the doorway, iron gates, diagonal buttresses, a hoodmould, and trefoil windows in the left and right walls. The doorway has boarded doors.
In the northwest corner is a vestry, featuring two trefoil lancets facing north and west, and a blind quatrefoil in the gable. String courses continue around the chancel, leading to a broad three-light window with three trefoils and a hoodmould that is a continuation of the string course.
The east end is square, with diagonal buttresses. A broad five-light east window has geometrical tracery in the head. Below the window is a relief of a Maltese cross with 13th-century-style floral decoration. To the south is the vestry, and a four-light window.
The south aisle has five bays and four windows; the first bay on the left incorporates a small door. The aisle windows are unusual, each with two low trefoil lights above which are circular lights with varied treatment, such as cloverleaf and trefoil designs.
The five-bay nave has alternating octagonal and cylindrical shafts. Common rafter roofs are present in the nave and north aisle. The eastern two bays of the south aisle feature an ornate late medieval-style roof and canopied wooden stalls against the wall. A wrought-iron chancel screen is also present. The chancel roof is ribbed and boarded with painted floral decoration and inscriptions, designed by H. L. North, an architect of Llanfairfechan. A marble reredos stands at the east end, with the east window flanked by statues of evangelists in 15th-century-style niches. On the right (south) wall is a priest's doorway with stencilled painted floral decoration to the door and archway, also designed by H. L. North. To the left (north) of the chancel is an organ chamber containing an organ built by William Hill in 1876 and rebuilt in 1902. To the west of the organ chamber, at the end of the north aisle, is a wooden traceried war memorial altar and reredos, designed by H. L. North in 1925.
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