Church of Christ Church

The Church of Christ Church is a structure built in the 18th century. It consists of a five-bay nave, a chancel, a separately gabled northeast vestry that has been converted into a chapel, a southeast tower, and a south porch. A suite of parish rooms was added later in the 20th century and is attached to the north side. The building is constructed of snecked rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof featuring cruciform finials. The windows are of one, two, and three lights with Perpendicular tracery, with angle buttresses and stepped coping on the exterior. The south nave has four windows. The chancel has two single trefoil-headed lights to the south and one to the north; a three-light east window with a dedication stone below; and a similar west window. The low porch has a wide pointed arched doorway with multiple roll mouldings and no capitals, raised coping, and chunky angle buttresses with offsets. Inside the porch, the main south doorway is similar though more pointed. The unbuttressed tower has a deep crenellated parapet and semi-octagonal turrets to the upper storey, which features two-light, heavily moulded, louvred belfry openings with Perpendicular tracery and splayed sills. Below these are paired openings with hoodmoulds to the tower chamber, and taller single-light windows above a battered plinth. A flight of steps leads up to a pointed arched doorway on the northeast side, with basement steps to the west. The former vestry, now the chapel at the northeast, has a square-headed three-light side window.

The interior is rendered and painted, with exposed ashlar dressings and a dark-stained, open-boarded timber roof. The nave roof comprises five bays with king posts and lowered ridge purlins, while the chancel has a waggon roof with gilded floriated bosses and an elaborate corbel table. A wide, high, multi-moulded pointed chancel arch features three-quarter colonettes and a wooden rood screen with slender muntins, vine scroll coving, and cresting of close-set crockets. The font at the west is an octagonal bowl on short marble piers, dating to 1905. A stone and marble pulpit at the northeast nave has decorative canopywork and one figure, estimated to be from around 1912. The chancel and sanctuary have elaborately patterned encaustic tile floors; the sanctuary also has a two-sided piscina to the south. Wide arches to the north and south incorporate moulded bands; the north arch leads to a chapel created from the former vestry and contains later 20th-century furnishings. Coloured glass in Art Nouveau motifs is found here and in the north nave, while stained glass is present in the east, west, and south windows.