Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1988. Dwelling.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-lime-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Dwelling
- Address
- Christ Church, Georgetown, Park
- OS grid reference
- SO 042 063
- Coordinates
- 51.74786, -3.38843
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Christ Church is a 19th-century building featuring a plan that includes a chancel flanked by an organ chamber and vestries, transepts, an aisled nave, and west and south porches. The exterior is constructed with snecked facings and freestone dressings, topped with slate roofs. It has gable parapets adorned with crucifix finials, modern bargeboards, and diagonal buttresses with set-offs. The east wall showcases a four-light traceried window with crowned headstops, while the southeast angle features a pointed doorway with dragon-stops. The transepts are highlighted by twin traceried lancets grouped with oculi inspired by Westminster, and the clerestory windows are multi-cusped and triangular. The paired aisle windows have impaled cinquefoil heads. The west door is surrounded by a ball-flower motif, topped with an elaborate traceried rose window, and richly foliated corbels are present at the apex, where a bellcote once stood.
Inside, the spacious area boasts arched-brace roof trusses with collars and carved polygonal corbels that connect to ball-flower bands and hoods, with cusped trusses in the transepts. The transept arches lead to a three-bay nave arcade featuring alternating piers and wall-posts, and flying timber arches support the lean-to aisle roofs. The west gable end is accentuated by a high pair of foliage brackets. The east window glass, dated 1899, is signed by E R Suffling of London.
Local climate
Christ Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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