Christ Church, Eaton
History
Christ Church was built between 1856 and 1858 to a design by Raffles Brown. It is described by the authors of the Buildings of England series as a "tiny church ... in fantasy Gothic.
Architecture
The church is constructed in rubble stone, with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave, a chancel with a north vestry, a south porch, and a west tower. The tower has angle buttresses, a stair turret at the junction with the nave on the south, a battlemented parapet, and a small pyramidal roof. It is in three stages on a plinth. In the bottom stage is a two-light west window with a sharply pointed arch, containing Decorated tracery. The middle stage contains circular clock faces and, on the north and south sides a narrow rectangular opening below the clock. In the top stage are two lancet bell openings on each side.
Inside the church is a hammerbeam roof with floral bosses. The stained glass in the northeast window was given by the architect, and made by Forrest and Brownley of Liverpool. There is also a window dated 1969 by Francis Skeat. There is a ring of three bells. The oldest of these was cast in 1815 by William Dobson; the other two were cast in 1876 by John Taylor & Co.
External features
The churchyard contains the war grave of a Second World War Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer.
See also
References
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- ^ Christ Church, Eaton, Church of England, retrieved 2 March 2012
- ^ Historic England, "Christ Church, Eaton (1139494)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 2 March 2012
- ^ Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 344–345, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
- ^ Eaton, Christ Church, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, retrieved 2 March 2012
- ^ JONES, WALLACE ERNEST, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, retrieved 3 February 2013