Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195802
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195802
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85953 51719
Details
SJ 85 SE; 613-1/2/162
STOKE ON TRENT,
TUNSTALL,
High Street (east side)
Christ Church
II
Parish Church, a Commissioners Church of 1831-2. By Francis
Bedford, with extensions by A R Wood. Faced with coursed and
squared rubble, with Welsh slate roofs. West tower with
flanking aisles to nave, aisle chapels and enlarged chancel of
1884. West tower of three stages, with west doorway in chamfered
arch with simple hood mould. Lancet light and clock over, and
paired bell chamber lights. Angle buttresses form cusped
finials to parapet. Blind west windows to aisles, which are
divided into bays by thin pilaster buttresses with gablets,
each bay containing paired lancet windows. South door with
moulded arch beneath angled hood mould suggesting vestigial
gable. South aisle chapel, and chancel with 5-light Decorated
east window with panelled frieze below and central buttress
with gablet. North vestry.
INTERIOR: the church has a single
span Queen-strut roof. West gallery, and chancel arch with
marble shafts carried on corbels. Boarded ceiling in chancel,
painted with quatrefoil frieze. Stained glass and fittings
(altar, reredos etc) are early C20.
Listing NGR: SJ8595351719
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384423
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1963)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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