Christ Church

Christ Church is an asymmetrical church in simple Early English style, built in 1844 to accommodate 516 people with a grant from the incorporated society for promoting the enlargement, rebuilding and repair of churches and chapels. It comprises a nave, chancel, north-west steeple incorporating a porch, and south vestry. The building is constructed of dressed coursed pale freestone under slate roofs, with dressings of the same stone.

Exterior detail includes buttresses to angles with offsets, a continuous sill band, plinth, moulded stone eaves, and raised copings with kneelers. The windows are tall pointed lancets beneath hoodmoulds with decorative end bosses containing quarry glazing.

The three-stage tower incorporates an entrance to the north side and terminates in a broach spire. The doorway is detailed with two orders of attached shafts, ringed capitals and bases, a double chamfered pointed arch, and a continuous hoodmould with end bosses decorated with beasts. The middle stage has a single lancet; the upper stage has a pointed-arched louvre in plate tracery with two pointed lights and a roundel, hoodmould and sill band. A dentilled cornice runs to the spire, which is surmounted by a weather vane and has tall octagonal pinnacles at each angle and a lucarne to each face. The east and west sides of the tower contain the same openings to the middle and upper stages. To the north, in the angle of spire and nave, stands a cross-angle two-storey stair turret with flat roof; its chamfered doorway with shouldered head and narrow rectangular stair-light above are both now blocked.

The north side of the nave has four windows with a fifth lancet to the west of the tower; the chancel has two windows. The east end contains a large bar-traceried east window in Geometrical style with three pointed lancets and three roundels above. The south side of the chancel has a lateral stone stack with tall brick shaft. The lean-to vestry to the left contains a chamfered doorway with shouldered head and a lancet to the east end; to the right is a lancet window beneath which is a square-headed basement doorway reached by stone steps with iron railings; both doorways are now infilled with steel sheeting. The south side of the nave is seven-window; a cross-finial marks the west gable apex, whilst that from the east gable is missing. A three-light window occupies the west end with tall stepped lancets bearing individual hoodmoulds.

Inside, the nave features a tall chancel arch supported by polygonal columns with ringed capitals and bases; the arch has several orders of mouldings. A gallery originally occupied the west end with a boarded front bearing an inscription recording the church's construction in 1844. The gallery was infilled in the late twentieth century. A screen with three tall lancet windows is flanked by organ pipes with rooms behind; beneath the former gallery front is a partition wall with two lancet windows. A lobby to the centre has double panelled doors leading to a meeting room, with entrance doors to the right leading to the porch and its staircase to the tower. The nave has a twentieth-century five-bay roof with tie beams and struts; a canted ceiling features diagonal struts. An octagonal stone font at the west end is decorated with roundels to each face and stands on clustered shafts mounted on an octagonal plinth. The central aisle has pews with poppy-head bench ends and low wainscot panelling to the side walls. A raised altar table stands in front of the chancel arch; to its right is a doorway with shouldered head to the former vestry. A polygonal wood-panelled pulpit to the left features blind traceried panels and foliage decoration on a wooden stem, and serves as a war memorial with lists of names of those who died in the First and Second World Wars. A twentieth-century rood screen at the chancel arch with open cusped and traceried arches is a memorial of 1935 to the parents and grandfather of Trevor Eyton DL. A Welsh inscription formerly existed above the chancel arch but is now painted over. The chancel has a twentieth-century roof of two-and-a-half bays with simple collar trusses on short wall posts; the roof is boarded to the underside with diagonal wind braces and brightly painted. Wainscot panelling in the chancel commemorates William Vaughan Jones, vicar from 1903 to 1930. Two rows of panelled choir stalls occupy each side; the wood-panelled altar features an altar rail of decorative ironwork.

Stained glass in geometrical design to the east window is dated 1845 and is in memory of Reverend Thomas Pennant, recorded for his zeal in promoting the church's erection. A pair of stained glass windows to the north nave depicts Christ and commemorates Reverend William Vaughan Jones, erected by his sisters after 1930. A group of three windows with biblical scenes to the south nave is in memory of Helen Barratt (1847–1910), erected by her husband in 1911. A brass memorial tablet to the south nave commemorates William Roberts, church warden (died 1909).