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Christ Church, Rossett 
Christ Church, Rossett, from the southeast53°06′28″N 2°56′56″W / 53.1078°N 2.9490°WCoordinates: 53°06′28″N 2°56′56″W / 53.1078°N 2.9490°W Location Chester Road, Rossett, Wrexham County Borough Country Wales Denomination Anglican Architecture Heritage designation Grade II Designated 18 October 1996 Architect(s) Douglas & Fordham Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1891 Completed 1892 Construction cost £3,677 Specifications Materials Stone, green slate roof Administration Parish Rossett with Holt & Isycoed Deanery Gresford Archdeaconry Wrexham Diocese St Asaph Province Wales Clergy Vicar(s) Revd Alan Suter Curate(s) Revd Clive Tucker Christ Church, Rossett, is in Chester Road, Rossett, Wrexham County Borough, Wales (grid reference SJ365571). It is a Grade II listed building.[1] Christ Church is an active Anglican church in the deanery of Gresford, the archdeaconry of Wrexham and the diocese of St Asaph.[2] It is the parish church of the parish of Rossett with Holt & Isycoed.[3]
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History
The first church on the site was built in 1841. The present church had been designed in 1886 but it was not built until 1891–92.[4] It cost over £3,677 (£300 thousand today);[5] the major donor was John Townsend of Trevalyn House, and £2,861 (£230 thousand today) was raised by public subscription. A clock was added in 1902.[1]
Architecture
The church is built of stone with a green slate roof in Gothic Revival style. Its plan is cruciform with a central tower over the choir at the crossing. It has a five-bay nave with a north aisle, a short chancel, north and south transepts and a south porch. The south transept is used as the vestry and the north transept contains a small chapel. The tower has buttresses on the north and south sides only which are in line with the east and west faces, and there are similar butresses at the east end of the church. The clock face is on the east wall of the tower and on the other sides of the tower are three-light louvred bell openings. The top of the tower is crenellated with a pinnacle surmounted by a crocketted finial at each corner.[1] The windows have Perpendicular tracery. The porch is gabled, with a canopied niche above the doorway, and side buttresses.[6] The niche contains a statue of Christ the Shepherd. The east window has seven lights. At the angle of the south nave and the south transept is an attached stair-turret.[1]
Internally, the arcade between the nave and the aisle has octagonal piers.[6] The wooden furnishings, including the reredos, the stalls, the pews and the organ case were designed by Douglas. The stained glass in the east window (1905), and in the easternmost window on the south wall of the nave (1904) is by Kempe. The north window in the chancel has stained glass designed and made by Morris & Co. (1907) and in the north transept is glass dating from the late 1920s by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.[4]
The architectural writer Goodhart-Rendel commented about the church: "Inside and out this building has real charm, and is beautifully thorough in detail".[7]
See also
- List of new churches by John Douglas
References
- ^ a b c d Christ Church. Rossett Online. http://www.rossett.org.uk/ron_listed.php?mode=item&id=0000008. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
- ^ The Diocese of St Asaph. Diocese of St Asaph. http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/asaph/local/deaneries/gresford.html. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
- ^ Deanery of Gresford. Diocese of St Asaph. http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/asaph/parishes/GresfordDeanery/index.html. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
- ^ a b Hubbard, Edward (1986). The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd. London: Penguin. pp. 266–267. ISBN 0 14 071052 3.
- ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
- ^ a b Hubbard, Edward (1991). The Work of John Douglas. London: The Victorian Society. pp. 173–175. ISBN 0 901657 16 6.
- ^ Quoted in Hubbard, Edward (1986). The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd. London: Penguin. p. 266. ISBN 0 14 071052 3.
Categories:- Churches in Wrexham county borough
- Anglican churches in Wales
- Anglican congregations established in the 19th century
- Religious buildings completed in 1892
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Grade II listed buildings in Wrexham county borough
- Grade II listed churches
- John Douglas buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in Wales
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