Christ Church, Walmsley

Christ Church is in Blackburn Road, Walmsley, Egerton, Greater Manchester, England.

Colonel JW Slater had the old site excavated in the early 1900s and found three older layers under the Georgian chapel, the lowest, he supposed to be of late Saxon origin, being an equal-legged cross in plan.

[7] It was consecrated on 3 October 1839 by Rt Rev John Bird Sumner, then the Bishop of Chester.

[4][9] Christ Church was constructed in Pennine sandstone from the local Cox Green Quarry with ashlar dressings and a slate roof.

[2] Inside the church, the arcades are carried on monolithic piers (made from single pieces of stone).

(earlier references to 16 ft ht are incorrect)[8][9] The west gallery is supported on two cast iron columns.

In the nave, in windows facing each other, is glass designed by Edward Burne-Jones and made by Morris & Co. in 1889.