Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 December 1997. Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- fading-chalk-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1997
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Christ Church is an aisleless rectangular church built in a plain early Gothic Revival style, featuring a stepped down and narrower chancel. The liturgical north side is faced with dressed stone and has a slate roof. The church has an unusually narrow west tower topped with a pyramid spire. The nave includes four simple two-light windows with slender stone Y-tracery and dressed stone surrounds. The tower has several simple lancet windows, and the bell-cote features a three-light mullioned opening on each face.
The chancel, added between 1865 and 1866, is stepped down from the nave and is narrower, constructed in a similar style with dressed stone, lancet windows, and angle buttresses. The east window is more elaborate, showcasing geometric tracery and a decorative hoodmould. The liturgical south side, which faces away from the road, is made of stone rubble and has three nave windows, each with different tracery; one is an original Y-traceried window while the others are later 19th-century windows with Decorated tracery. Disturbances in the masonry indicate that these later windows were inserted.
Inside, the nave has a central aisle with late 19th-century pews. There is an early west end gallery supported by two cast-iron columns painted white, with a boarded gallery front also painted white. The coved common rafter roof likely dates from the 1865-6 alterations. The later chancel, narrower than the nave, has a tiled floor. The church features stained glass, including windows by William Wailes, and the chancel contains a memorial window for William Wynn Eyton, dated June 6th, 1857, which notes that he served at Trafalgar with Nelson at the age of 11.
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