Christ Church

CHRIST CHURCH, MELTON HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1286487
Date first listed:
21-Aug-1985
Statutory Address:
CHRIST CHURCH, MELTON HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1286487
Date first listed:
21-Aug-1985
Statutory Address 1:
CHRIST CHURCH, MELTON HIGH STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
CHRIST CHURCH, MELTON HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SE 42159 00923

Details

SE40SW WATH UPON DEARNE MELTON HIGH STREET (north side)

2/48 Christ Church

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Church. 1855 by Pritchett and Sons. Rock-faced sandstone, slate roof. 3-stage west tower, 5-bay aisled nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel with gabled projection to north and south. Gothic revival style. Windows have Decorated-style tracery and hoodmoulds with head-carved stops; buttresses between bays; diagonal buttresses to angles and lower 2 stages of tower; shaped kneelers and gable copings. Tower: offset bands at each stage. Door in south side beneath 2-light window, elaborate crocketed niche on west side. 2nd stage has single light window beneath clock. Paired 2-light belfry openings. Corner gargoyles beneath pierced parapet (pinnacles removed). Nave: gabled porch to bay 2, other bays with 3-light windows. Chancel: lower, gabled projections in angle with aisles, 5-light east window, gable cross.

Interior: cyma-moulded piers and arches to nave arcades, foliate carved capitals. Vaulted roof with ribs springing from angel corbels; gilded bosses. Contemporary oak furnishings including rood screen.

Listing NGR: SE4215900923

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