Christ Church Parish Church

The Church Interior

Service held at 10:45 every Sunday, at Christ Church, Block Lane, Chadderton

This parish was created in 1870.

The Church Building was established by lay folk who then went looking for a gospel hearted vicar to lead and feed the flock.

Christ Church parish was uniquely established within the diocese of Manchester as a response to a need for a specifically evangelical church.

This outlook remains...We are a lively, Gospel-hearted, Bible-believing, conservative evangelical church.

The Church Interior
	The Church Interior was refurbished in 1995 to allow a more flexible arrangement within the Church.
	Gone are the stone floors and wooden pews that people expect to find in an old Church building, to be replaced with carpets and comfortable cushioned chairs. These improvements, help to provide a warm and friendly place to worship in.

	Lychgate at Christ Church - Grade II Listed
	Location: at main entrance to church grounds on Block Lane
	Erected 1913 on tie-beam. Clay tile roof supported by timber posts on rock-faced stone dwarf walls.
	The dwarf walls are inscribed "Erected by the congregation in memory of Alfred Butterworth".
	Bratticed tie-beam truss with Tudor-arched braces has cusped arches between vertical members. Two such trusses constitute the gables. Square posts at each corner.
Thanks to the Chadderton Historical Society for permission to use information from their site.

The Church Building

The Parish Church of Christ Church is grade II Listed.
Built in 1870 by H. Ainley. Rock-faced stone with slate and copper roofs. Nave with clerestory, aisles, south-east tower and chancel. Gothic revival. Five-bay nave and aisles with projecting plinth. Each bay has a weathered buttress and a 2-light window with geometrical tracery (and a door in the west bay). Circular and cusped clerestory windows. Coped gabled.

Four-stage castellated tower with angled weathered buttresses, door with colonnettes, cusped lancet windows, quatrefoil windows and two-light belfry openings and a square stair turret topped by a spirelet. Two-bay chancel with 5-light east window. Five-light west window.

Interior: chamfered nave arcade arches on clustered columns. Timber fittings. Stained glass. Mosaic walls and floor to chancel. Twentieth century ceiling conceals the nave roof structure.