Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 October 1996. A C19 Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- weathered-gargoyle-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1996
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, Rossett
- OS grid reference
- SJ 365 571
- Coordinates
- 53.10806, -2.94998
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Christ Church is a Grade II listed building designed in the Free Gothic Revival style, which reinterprets Perpendicular Gothic with unique characteristics by architects Douglas and Fordham. It is constructed from deeply dressed stone laid in irregular courses, with the first three courses of larger grey stones serving as a plinth. The church has a cruciform plan featuring a long nave and a north aisle with five bays, a short high chancel, and transepts. A square tower is positioned at the crossing, topped with a green slate roof.
The windows in the north aisle are square-headed, lacking drip stones or hood moulds, and feature key-hole tracery similar to that on the east face of the south transept. The tower has angle-stepped buttresses that are flush with the east and west faces, maintaining the wall-plane to the north and south. The buttresses on the east end wall are also flush and project north and south, mirroring those on the tower. The original rain-water goods are dated to 1892. The tower includes three-light louvered openings, a crenellated parapet with crocketed finials, and a clock on the east face dedicated to "ER" with a date of "1902". An attached stair-turret is located at the angle of the south nave wall and south transept.
The east window consists of seven lights, and there is a single-storey entrance porch on the south side featuring a carving of Christ the Shepherd in a sculptural niche above the arch. Stained glass is present in both the east and west windows.
Inside, the south transept serves as a vestry, while the north aisle opens into the transept, creating a small chapel. The choir is positioned forward of the chancel, situated under the crossing, and includes a reredos, stalls, and pews designed by Douglas. Stained glass in the north transept was created by Heaton, Butler, and Bayne in the late 1920s, while the east window features glass by Kempe from 1905 and the chancel has glass by Morris and Co. from 1907. The organ case was also designed by Douglas.
Local climate
Christ Church receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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