Christ Church is on Church Street,
Adlington,
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...
, England. It is a
redundant Anglican church, and is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England
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as a designated Grade II
listed building
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.
History
Christ Church was built in 1838–39, and designed by
Edward Welch.
It was a
Commissioners' Church
A Commissioners' church, also known as a Waterloo church and Million Act church, is an Anglican church in the United Kingdom built with money voted by Parliament as a result of the Church Building Acts of 1818 and 1824. The 1818 Act supplie ...
, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.
[ The total cost of the church was £1,560 (equivalent to £ in ) towards which a grant of £400 was given.]
Architecture
The church is in Neo-Norman style.[ It is built in ashlar stone with a slate roof. The church consists of a six- bay ]nave
The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...
and a short chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse.
Ov ...
under one roof. At the west end is a two-stage tower. In the bottom stage of the tower are angle pilaster
In classical architecture, a pilaster is an architectural element used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function. It consists of a flat surface raised from the main wal ...
buttress
A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient buildings, as a means of providing support to act against the lateral ( ...
es and a round-headed west door. The second stage contains two lancet windows on three of its sides, and above this is an octagonal drum.[ There was originally a spire, but this has been removed.][ Along the sides of the nave are pilaster buttresses and round-headed lancet windows. The east window consists of five stepped lancets. On the south side of the chancel is a priest's door.][ The interior has been altered, but three panelled galleries have been retained.][
]
See also
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* Listed buildings in Adlington, Lancashire
References
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Church of England church buildings in Lancashire
Grade II listed churches in Lancashire
Romanesque Revival church buildings in England
Churches completed in 1839
Commissioners' church buildings
Former churches in Lancashire
Christ Church, Adlington
Adlington, Lancashire