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Description: Christ Church

Address: Christ Church Burnley Road Todmorden

Grade: II

Group detail: Burnley Road (off) (south side)

Full description:
Commissioners church. 1832 by L. Vulliamy. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, slate roof and north porch. Early English lancet style. 5-bay nave. Angle buttresses, plinth, string, corbel table. 2-light windows with offset buttresses set between. Porch in 3rd bay of nave has string which rises over pointed arched doorway. Pyramidal finials with cross to centre parapet. 2-light clerestorey windows. Finials to corners of aisles and clerestorey. West tower is embraced by canted walls for staircase to gallery. 3 stage embattled tower has clasping buttresses. Pointed arched west door. 2nd stage has stepped window of 3 tall lights. 3rd stage has 2-light belfry with to west face clock set within blind arcade. Buttresses continue to form finials. Shallow chancel has angle buttresses to east only. East window of 3 tall stepped lights set within a pointed arch with hood-mould. Interior: Nave has pointed arched arcade with octagonal columns and moulded capitals. Slightly cambered wooden roof. Chancel is thrown out a further 2 bays, and has waggon roof, and elaborate opus sectile mosaic with texts invoking the Redeemer and companies of saints amongst other scenes. Wrought iron chancel screen and gates. Gallery on 3 sides. Late C19 pews throughout. F. Kershaw, Todmorden Parish Church, (Todmorden 1982). N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London, 1979), p.521.