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Christ Church, Rossett

Christ Church, Rossett
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Christ Church, Rossett, from the southeast
Coordinates: 53°06′28″N 2°56′56″W / 53.1078°N 2.9490°W / 53.1078; -2.9490
OS grid reference SJ 365,571
Location Chester Road, Rossett, Wrexham County Borough
Country Wales
Denomination Anglican
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 18 October 1996
Architect(s) Douglas and 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 wales
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. It is designated by Cadw as a Grade II listed building. Christ Church is an active Anglican church in the deanery of Gresford, the archdeaconry of Wrexham and the diocese of St Asaph. It is the parish church of the parish of Rossett with Holt & Isycoed.

The first church on the site was built in 1841. The present church had been designed in 1886 by the Chester architects Douglas and Fordham, but it was not built until 1891–92. It cost over £3,677 (equivalent to £360,000 in 2015), the major donor was John Townsend of Trevalyn House, and £2,861 (equivalent to £280,000 in 2015) was raised by public subscription. A clock was added in 1902.

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 buttresses 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. The windows have Perpendicular tracery. The porch is gabled, with a canopied niche above the doorway, and side buttresses. 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.


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