Christ Church, Llanwarne

Christ Church is a Grade II parish church at Llanwarne, Herefordshire, in the Diocese of Hereford. It was built in 1864 to replace the flood-prone medieval church of St John the Baptist, which still stands as a ruin across the road.

Overview

Historic England records a cruciform church of 1864 by Messrs Elmslie, in coursed red sandstone with limestone dressings and tiled roofs: a two-bay nave, north porch with octagonal belfry and spire, transepts, south vestry and polygonal chancel, in a Geometrical style. Wikipedia and parish sources name the Malvern practice Elmslie, Franey and Haddon and give a building cost of £2,550. The listing notes fittings brought from St John the Baptist, including wall monuments to James and Rev Ralph Lochey, a seventeenth-century font and a cracked medieval bell inscribed Missi de celis, habes nomen Gabrielis.

The north-east, east and south-east windows of the Nativity, Crucifixion and Resurrection commemorate Walter Baskerville Mynors, rector 1855–96. The south transept holds an 1882 organ by Eustace Ingram of London. Two south nave windows contain sixteenth-century Netherlandish stained-glass roundels, including scenes from the Dutch morality tale Sorgheloos, given by Mynors after they were removed from St Weonards in 1884.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1099767
• British Listed Buildings: Christ Church, Llanwarne