Description

SK 09 NW PARISH OF TINTWISTLE CHURCH STREET
4/25 (South Side)
Christ Church
GV II

Church. 1837. Coursed gritstone and gritstone ashlar. Slate roofs. Nave with
projecting tower and flanking porches at the west end and lower chancel with
north vestry. The chancel and vestry are a slightly later addition. Tall
lancet windows with Y tracery, five to north and south side of nave divided by
buttresses with two set-offs. West tower with angle buttresses, Y-traceried west
window with one transom, tall single lancet bell openings and four pinnacles.
The east window also has a transom. The west porches fill the angles between the
tower and nave. They have doorways to each face with four-centred arches and
labels. Gothic panelled doors. The interior is still in the tradition of the
Georgian 'preaching box'. Raked gallery on three sides supported on cast iron
columns. Gallery fronts with gothic tracery set within square 'classical' panels.
Complete box pews. Stained glass by Mayer & Co Ltd of Munich and London, in the
east window 1874, north aisle east window 1895 and in the second window from the
east on the south side. South east upper window 1922 by C E Kempe.

Listing NGR: SK0218297236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26380381

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)