Building record 10806 - Christ Church, Somerset Street

Christ Church is an Anglican church, built 1866-1900 by John Douglas. It is of orange Ruabon brick and sandstone with a grey-green slate roof. The interior has an aisled nave, chancel, baptistry, chapel and vestries; the intended south-west steeple was not built.

Internal features include a pedestal pulpit; rood-beam, rather lightweight, 1920 by Sir Charles Nicholson; reredos and chancel fittings c1900-1910, also by Nicholson; chapel reredos by Kempe 1897 and gates probably by Nicholson; organ and case with panels painted in Pre-Raphaelite manner. Chapel windows 1897, south aisle 1901 and west window 1902 are by Kempe; baptistry 1906 by AK Nicholson; west north aisle window 1906 by Bryams. (1)

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 469915 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.