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Christ Church, Bacup

The former Christ Church building - now known as Rossendale Digital Bacup Campus - is in Beech Street, off Todmorden Road, Bacup, Lancashire, England. It is a former Anglican parish church in the deanery of Rossendale, the archdeaconry of Bolton and the diocese of Manchester and has been acquired by a local business to convert into Rossendale's first dedicated digital centre. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. History The church was built in 1854, and paid for from the legacy of a local manufacturer, James Heyworth. It was designed by the Lancaster firm of architects Sharpe and Paley. The church cost over £3,000 (equivalent to £290,000 in 2025), and contained seating for 500 people. In 2012 it was decided that the church will close, and its congregation will share the premises of the Central Methodist Church. Its last service was held on 26 August 2012, and it was thereafter closed. Architecture Exterior Christ Church is constructed in sandstone rubble with a slate roof. Its architectural style is Gothic Revival. The plan consists of a southwest tower, a four-bay nave with north and south aisles, a porch, and a clerestory, and a two-bay chancel. The tower is in three stages and has diagonal buttresses rising halfway up the tower. At its southeast corner is a polygonal stair turret rising to a greater height than the tower and surmounted by a pinnacled lantern. It has a three-light west window in the lowest stage with smaller three-light windows in the middle stage on the west and south sides. The top stage contains two-light bell openings and at the top is a plain parapet. At the west end of the body of the church are triple two-light windows with a wheel window above them in the gable. At the east end is a triple lancet window. Interior The reredos is in stone with blind arcades, crockets, and images of faces. The pulpit is in a similar style. The church contains a pair of stained glass windows by Shrigley and Hunt. Future After 12 years of closure, the Church of England sold the building - for conversion into offices with a focus on digital businesses - to the owners of local digital marketing agency GrowTraffic and led by Simon Dalley. Planning permission was granted for this redevelopment in April 2023. The acquisition of the building was completed on 22 November 2024. The former Christ Church building has been redeveloped as Rossendale's digital hub and is now known as Rossendale Digital Bacup Campus. See also Listed buildings in Bacup List of works by Sharpe and Paley References
Christ Church, Barnton

Christ Church is in the village of Barnton, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Great Budworth, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. History Christ Church was built in 1841–42. The foundation stone was laid on 25 October 1841, and the church was consecrated on 7 October 1842 by John Sumner, Bishop of Chester. The land for the church cost £30 (equivalent to £2,900 in 2025), and the church itself cost £1,400 (equivalent to £137,000 in 2025). The cost of the land was met by Richard Greenall, vicar of St Matthew's Church, Stretton, Archdeacon of Chester, and a member of the Greenall's family, brewers in Warrington. The church website states that the architect was Edmund Sharpe of Lancaster. There is no other documentary evidence that Sharpe was the architect, but owing to the stylistic similarity of the design to his other works at about the same time it has been attributed to him. A considerable restoration was undertaken in 1888, which included covering the internal brick walls with cement rendering. In 1899 the church was extended at the east end by enlarging the nave and the chancel, and installing a new east window. A new organ chamber was built on the south side of the church, and the vicar's vestry on the north side was demolished. The extension was consecrated on 19 September 1900 by Francis Jayne, Bishop of Chester. A small extension was added to the church in 1974. Architecture The church is constructed in Runcorn red sandstone, and its interior is lined with red brick. It has a Welsh slate roof. The plan consists of an eight-bay nave and chancel in one range, a south porch, and a south chapel containing the organ. At the west end is a double bellcote. The bays along the sides of the nave are divided by buttresses, and each bay contains a lancet window. There are triple lancet windows at the east and west ends of the church. Inside the church is a gallery at the west end carried on cast iron columns. The reredos contains Gothic arcading and a carving of the Last Supper. The Bath stone pulpit had been made in 1842 for St Helen Witton Church, Northwich, and was moved to Christ Church in 1888, having been bought for £10 (equivalent to £1,100 in 2025). The authors of the Buildings of England series describe the pulpit as being "Puginesquely elaborate". The two-manual organ was built in 1913 by Wadsworth and Brother, and may contain pipework from an earlier organ. See also Listed buildings in Barnton, Cheshire List of architectural works by Edmund Sharpe References
Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon

The Anglican Christ Church is in the northern Hillside Terraces district of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England. It is in the Bradford Deanery of the Diocese of Salisbury. Early in the 19th century, people in this area of town objected to going down the hill to the northern town centre to their parish church, the originally Norman church of Holy Trinity, which was considered to be "in a bad part of the town." The church was in need of repair and the nearby Saxon Church of St Lawrence across the road from Holy Trinity was yet to be discovered. The new parish of Christ Church was created and a new structure was commissioned to be designed by Bath architect G. P. Manners in 1839. Consecrated in 1841, it was "originally...a simple design with plain walls, clear glass windows and stone flagged floors and was in the Perpendicular style." Later Victorian taste in churches was for something more elaborate, so in 1875 it was "restored" by Sir George Gilbert Scott; the east end was rebuilt, with an extra bay beyond the east wall to form a sanctuary. After Scott's death in 1878, interior work was overseen by his son John Oldrid Scott. Further work in 1884 included the addition of a south porch, and in 1919 C.E. Ponting added the south chapel as a war memorial to C. Eric Moulton. The church has a ring of eight bells cast in 1923 by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon. The church was designated as Grade II* listed in 1952. Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as a "big, prosperous church". Today the parish forms part of the North Bradford-on-Avon benefice. References External links Official website Media related to Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon at Wikimedia Commons
Christ Church, Chatburn

Christ Church is in the village of Chatburn, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Whalley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn and the diocese of Blackburn. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. History Construction of the church began in 1837, the architect being Edmund Sharpe of Lancaster. It was one of Sharpe's first commissions and one of his early churches in Romanesque style. The church was founded by Dixon Robinson, steward of the Honour of Clitheroe who, together with his older brother William, partly paid for it. The foundation stone was laid on 22 June 1837. Under the stone a bottle was placed containing coins, medals, and a copy of the Blackburn Standard. An article in the Blackburn Standard suggested that Christ Church was the first to be commenced during the reign of Queen Victoria. The estimated cost of the church was £950 (equivalent to £90,000 in 2025), towards which the Incorporated Church Building Society contributed a grant of £250. It provided seating for 364 people. The church was consecrated on 18 September 1838 by the Bishop of Chester. On 3 May 1854 the spire was struck by lightning, damaging both the spire and the tower. In 1881 it was decided to enlarge the church, and the architect Frederick Josias Robinson, son of Dixon Robinson, who was practising in Derby, was commissioned to design and supervise this. The nave was widened by the addition of north and south aisles, and the chancel by the addition of a north transept, acting as an organ chamber, and a south transept, used as a choir vestry. This was carried out in 1882–83. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner remarks on the uniform architectural style used by the two architects, writing "all is so entirely of a piece". Architecture The original parts of Christ Church are constructed in limestone with sandstone dressings and it has a slate roof; the spire is in sandstone. The expansion of 1882–83 is in Runcorn red sandstone, with dressings in Bath stone. The tower has three stages; the lowest stage has two blank arches on each side and two round-headed windows on the west front. There are similar windows on each side of both upper stages, and in the top stage are clock faces. The plan of the church consists of a west tower with a spire, a nave with north and south aisles and a south porch, and a chancel with a semicircular apse. Internally, at the west end is a gallery. The two-manual organ was made by Brindley & Foster of Sheffield in 1890. External features The churchyard contains the war graves of three soldiers of World War I, and a soldier and airman of World War II. See also Listed buildings in Chatburn List of architectural works by Edmund Sharpe Notes References
Christ Church, Chester

Christ Church is a Church of England parish church in Somerset Street, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is in the Archdeaconry of Chester and the Deanery of Chester. Its benefice is combined with that of St Michael, Plas Newton. It is a Grade II listed building. History The church was built to replace an earlier church dated 1838 on the site which had been designed by Thomas Jones. It was rebuilt in separate stages by John Douglas. The chancel dates from 1893, the southeast chapel from 1897, the nave was completed in 1900, and the northwest baptistry was added in 1904. A southwest steeple was planned but was never built. The porch was built in 1936, in place of the planned steeple. Architecture Exterior The chancel and the southeast chapel are built of sandstone ashlar and the rest of the church is in red brick with stone dressings. The roofs are of grey-green slates. The style is Gothic Revival. The plan of the church consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel, a baptistry, a southeast chapel, vestries, and a south porch. Over the porch is a cantilevered timber-framed hip-roofed bellcote. The gables have crosses as finials and the nave roof has five blocked lucarnes on each slope. Interior Sir Charles Nicholson designed the gilded reredos, the organ case, and the side screen, between 1900 and 1910, and the rood beam in 1920, and also possibly the gates to the chapel. The reredos in the chapel, dating from 1897, was designed by Kempe, its figures being carved by Joseph Mayer of Oberammergau. The paintings of 1910 on the organ screen are by Gertrude Siddall. Robert Hilton designed the bishop's chair and a prayer board. There are two fonts, one probably dating from 1837, octagonal and in stone, and another dating from 1904 in alabaster. The churchwardens' settles date from 1837, and were formerly in St Mary's Church, Eccleston. Also in the church is a painting depicting Christ prepared for the Entombment by Westall, dated 1826, and which was an altarpiece in Eccleston church. There is a painting of Mary Magdalene, startled in a wood, by Herbert Gustave Schmalz. Much of the stained glass is by Kempe, including that in the southeast chapel of 1897, the south aisle of 1901, the west window of 1902, and outside the baptistry. Above the older font is a window by A. Hilton dated 1906, depicting an angel. The baptistry glass also dates from 1906 and is by A. K. Nicholson. The memorials dating from between about 1895 to 1917 consist of small alabaster plaques. The two-manual organ was built by Brindley & Foster of Sheffield. Organ is due for a refurbishment in the next 5 years. From 2015, Church was fitted with a glass door to replace wooden doors to allow more light in. Stage at front was brought forward. In 2019, Stage Four renewed space project to add an extension on to Vestry and community rooms for Children Work and local homeless community of Chester started in 2019. Work to be completed in the next 5 years to the cost of £1 million. See also Grade II listed buildings in Chester (north and west) List of new churches by John Douglas References
Christ Church, Chilwell

Christ Church is a parish church in the Church of England in Chilwell, Nottinghamshire. History Originally a mission church created from the parish of St. Mary's Church, Attenborough, Christ Church was built between 1901 and 1903. It was consecrated by the Bishop of Southwell Rt. Revd. Edwin Hoskyns on 3 July 1915. New vestries were added in 1950 and the chancel was added in 1957 by the architect Eric Vernon Royle. It has a daughter church of St. Barnabas Church, Inham Nook. Organ The first organ in the church was a one-manual instrument by Groves of London which was originally erected in St Mary's Church, Attenborough on 12 May 1857. A two manual organ by Gray and Davison with 16 stops was installed in 1937 The work was carried out by the organist, Norman Buttler of Long Eaton. This organ was overhauled by Ernest Wragg in 1956. In 1986 this organ was moved to St Vincent's Church, Caythorpe. The current organ was built by Nigel Church in 1984 with modern mechanical action. References External links See Christ Church on Google Street View. Christ Church Chilwell Website
Christ Church (Clifton Down)

Die Christ Church (Christus-Kirche) in Clifton Down in Bristol in England ist eine im Jahr 1841 fertiggestellte Pfarrkirche der Church of England und ein denkmalgeschütztes Gebäude zweiten Grades. Ihr Standort wird auch mit ST571739 im National Grid angegeben. Geschichte Die Kirche wurde im Jahr 1841 nach Plänen von Charles Dyer gebaut, der Kirchturm 1859 von John Norton und die Kirchenschiffe 1885 von William Basset Smith. Im Jahr 2015 wurde die Kirche für zwei Wochen geschlossen, nachdem starker Wind den Kirchturm beschädigt hatte. Architektur Das kreuzförmige Kalksteingebäude mit Schieferdach ist im Stil der frühen englischen Gotik errichtet worden. Der Chor besitzt einen 5/8-Schluss. Das nördliche Querschiff wird von einem Strebewerk gestützt. Der fünfstöckige Kirchturm mit Spitze ist 65 m (213 ft) hoch. An seinem Fuß ist der Eingang mit Purbeck-Marmor versehen. Die westliche Galerie in der Kirche wird durch gusseiserne Säulen in Holzverkleidung gestützt. Nachbau Eine Replik der Kirche steht in Thames Town, ein Vorort und Planstadt von Shanghai im Stil der englischen Architektur. Kirchenarchiv Kirchenbücher für Christ Church, Clifton, Bristol sind im Bristol Archive, Ref. P.CC, einschließlich der Tauf- und Heiratsregister. Das Archiv enthält auch Aufzeichnungen über Amtsinhaber, Kirchenvorsteher, Pfarrkirchenräte, Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen und der Sakristei. Weblinks Website der Kirche Die Christ Church von Clifton im ChurchCrawler Gnu Tube: Die Sänger und Musiker der Christ Church Clifton Einzelnachweise
Christ Church, Clifton Down

Christ Church (grid reference ST571739) is a Church of England parish church in Clifton, Bristol, England. It has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. History The church was built in 1841 by Charles Dyer. The steeple was built in 1859 by John Norton, and the aisles in 1885 by William Basset Smith. A Christian mission organised here is credited with inspiring Emma Saunders to devote her life to good works. She spent fifty years as the "Railwayman's Friend" in Bristol starting in 1878. In 2015 the church was closed for two weeks after the steeple was damaged in high winds. The Anglican parish is part of the benefice of Christ Church with Emmanuel, Clifton which falls within the Diocese of Bristol. It is affiliated with the New Wine Network. Having formerly been conservative evangelical, the church now accepts women in roles of leadership and public ministry. Architecture The cruciform limestone building has a slate roof. It was built in the Early English Gothic Revival style. There is an octagonal apse. The north transept is supported by buttresses. The steeple above the five-stage tower reaches 65 metres (213 ft). At its base is a doorway with Purbeck marble shafts. Inside the church is a west gallery supported by cast iron columns with timber cladding. A replica of the church exists in Thames Town, a suburb of Shanghai built in a style imitative of English architecture. Archives Parish records for Christ Church, Clifton, Bristol are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. P.CC) (online catalogue) including baptism and marriage registers. The archive also includes records of the incumbent, churchwardens, parochial church council, charities and vestry. See also List of tallest buildings and structures in Bristol Churches in Bristol Grade II* listed buildings in Bristol References External links Christ Church Christ Church, Clifton, on ChurchCrawler Gnu Tube: The Singers and Musicians of Christ Church Clifton
Christ Church, Croft

Christ Church is in Lady Lane, Croft, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Winwick, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool. Its benefice is united with that of Newchurch. The church is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building. It was a Commissioners' church and had received a grant for its building from the Church Building Commission. History The church was built between 1832 and 1833 to a design by Edward Blore. A grant of £1,457 (equivalent to £150,000 in 2025) was given towards its construction by the Church Building Commission. Its total cost was £2,667. The church was consecrated on 29 November 1833 by the Bishop of Chester. From 1839 until 1892, the rector of Croft with Southworth was Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, who in addition to his ministerial work was also a mathematician, for whom Kirkman triple systems are named. Architecture Christ Church is constructed in red sandstone with slate roofs. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave, a short chancel, and a steeple at the southwest corner. The tower is square with angle buttresses, a doorway on the east side, lancet windows on the south and west faces, and bell openings consisting of twin louvred lancets. The summit of the tower broaches into a hexagonal drum with louvred lucarnes, above which is the spire, also containing lucarnes. All the windows in the church are lancets. Inside the church is a small west gallery. Also present are panels inscribed with the Creed, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer. The reredos is in coloured marble and Caen stone. The stained glass in the east window is by Mayer of Munich. It depicts the Good Shepherd flanked by Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The other Windows are by Shrigley and Hunt. See also List of Commissioners' churches in Northeast and Northwest England Listed buildings in Croft, Cheshire References
Christ Church, Crowton

Christ Church, Crowton, is in Station Road, Crowton, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Frodsham, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester. Its benefice is combined with those of St John the Evangelist, Kingsley, and St John the Evangelist, Norley. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. History Christ Church was built in 1871, the architect being J. L. Pearson. Architecture The church is constructed in red sandstone, with a red tiled roof. Its architectural style is that of the 13th century. The plan consists of a four-bay nave and a two-bay chancel in one range, a transept and a vestry on the north side, a south porch, and a two-tier double bellcote at the west end. The buttresses include a massive stepped buttress on the south side at the division of the nave and the chancel. The windows in the nave have two lights, and those in the chancel have three lights. Inside the church, the nave is divided from the chancel by a low wall and a double chamfered arch. The organ was built in 1871 by Gray and Davidson. See also Listed buildings in Crowton List of new ecclesiastical buildings by J. L. Pearson References
Christ Church, Eaton

Christ Church is in Macclesfield Road, the A536 road, to the south of the village of Eaton, Cheshire East, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Congleton, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester. Its benefice is combined with those of St James and St Paul, Marton, All Saints, Siddington, and Holy Trinity, Capesthorne. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. History Christ Church was built between 1856 and 1858 to a design by Raffles Brown. It is described by the authors of the Buildings of England series as a "tiny church ... in fantasy Gothic. Architecture The church is constructed in rubble stone, with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave, a chancel with a north vestry, a south porch, and a west tower. The tower has angle buttresses, a stair turret at the junction with the nave on the south, a battlemented parapet, and a small pyramidal roof. It is in three stages on a plinth. In the bottom stage is a two-light west window with a sharply pointed arch, containing Decorated tracery. The middle stage contains circular clock faces and, on the north and south sides a narrow rectangular opening below the clock. In the top stage are two lancet bell openings on each side. Inside the church is a hammerbeam roof with floral bosses. The stained glass in the northeast window was given by the architect, and made by Forrest and Brownley of Liverpool. There is also a window dated 1969 by Francis Skeat. There is a ring of three bells. The oldest of these was cast in 1815 by William Dobson; the other two were cast in 1876 by John Taylor & Co. External features The churchyard contains the war grave of a Second World War Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer. See also Listed buildings in Eaton, Cheshire East References
Christ Church, Freemantle

Christ Church is the parish church for Freemantle in Southampton. The church building is listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England. History The origins of a church community in Freemantle begin in 1856, when a church meeting took place in the Bailiffs House, and then later church services took place in the school rooms. On 25 July 1861, the foundation stone of the church was laid by Archdeacon Jacob. The building was constructed of Purbeck rubble and ashlar during 1865-1866 by William White. The windows were moulded with red brick. On 27 July 1865 the church was consecrated by Dr Sumner, Bishop of Winchester. On 19 April 1866 the Ecclesiastical Commission of England agreed that Freemantle would be a separate district from Millbrook, and declared the new Church of the Parish of Christ Church, Freemantle. The tower and spire were added in 1875. Architecture The main building is of Purbeck rubble and ashlar construction, with red brick mouldings around the windows. The building has a nave with a clerestory, chapels to the north and south, and a south porch. The tower, on the west of the building, has a broached spire which was added a decade after the construction of the remainder of the building. The chancel arch is wide, with three bay nave arcades. The windows are of a geometrical style. References External links Official website