Christ Church

Christ Church is an Anglican parish church, likely dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs with coped gables. The church comprises a nave, a north porch and transept, a tower above the chancel, a five-sided apse, and a parallel-roofed south aisle.

The north side of the church, starting from the west end, features a lancet window, a large gabled porch with side buttresses, a pointed doorway, and a traceried roundel above. Further east is a pointed three-light window with multi-foil tracery, a gabled north transept with a round window containing four quatrefoils, two cusped lancets, and a northeast corner turret with a pyramid roof and single cusped openings on each side. The central tower has clasping buttresses with gables at mid-height and two offsets above. It is rectangular in plan with the broader faces oriented east and west, each having a single large pointed bell-light with two-light and quatrefoil tracery. A lancet window is centrally placed on the north side of the tower, and a lean-to vestry is positioned below, featuring a cusped lancet window to its right. The polygonal apse to the chancel has five two-light windows with trefoils. The south aisle is separately roofed and contains pointed windows of three and two lights with foiled circles in the heads. A gabled insertion is situated at the east end of the aisle, south of the tower. The west end of the aisle has a two-light window with a cinquefoil; the west end of the nave has two similar windows, each with a quatrefoil in the head.

Inside, a five-bay arcade features double-chamfered pointed arches on round piers. This area was converted into a schoolroom in 1990, with screens designed by R. Clive-Powell incorporating round panels of coloured glass by Glasslight of Swansea (Suzanne Hill and Elizabeth Edmundson). Matching arches define the chancel and sanctuary, leading into the five-sided apse. The ceiling comprises arch-braced collar trusses with cusping above the collars. Original pews date from 1869. The church also contains a font from 1869 designed by Penson, altar rails from 1913 by E. V. Collier, an oak Gothic reredos of 1914 by E.V. Collier dedicated to the memory of Rev. Walters, an oak pulpit from 1928 by Wippell & Co, an organ from 1907 by Hunter & Son, choir stalls from 1935, and five stained glass windows of 1915 depicting the Life of Christ in the apse (by Kempe & Co), one from 1917 in the south aisle depicting the Good Samaritan (also by Kempe & Co), and a 1955 window in the nave north side depicting the Resurrection by J. Powell & Son.