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Listed Building: CHRIST CHURCH (1087996)

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Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 89, 4, 25
Date assigned 15 March 1984
Date last amended

Description

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.

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Location

Grid reference SK 02182 97236 (point)
Map sheet SK09NW
Civil Parish TINTWISTLE, HIGH PEAK, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 19 2010 10:41AM

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