Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon

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The Anglican Christ Church is located in the northern Hillside Terraces neighborhood Conservation District of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire.

Early in the 19th century people in this neighborhood objected to going down the hill to the northern town center to their parish at the originally Norman church of Holy Trinity, which considered to be "in a bad part of the town." The church was in need of repair and the neighboring Saxon Church of St Lawrence across the road from Holy Trinity has yet to be discovered.

The new parish of Christ Church was created and a new structure was commissioned to be designed by Bath architect G. P. Manners in 1839. It was "originally...a simple design with plain walls, clear glass windows and stone flagged floors and was in the Perpendicular style. "The design proved too simple for the taste of later Victorian and in 1875 Sir George Gilbert Scott was engaged to 'improve' it. He lengthened the chancel, added choir stalls, removed the gallery, replaced the pews and changed the church to more or less its present state. There is a west tower, with recessed spire, and in 1878 a chapel was added. There is a Lady Chapel memorial to Eric Moulton, who was killed in the First World War, and in 1923 a peal of 8 bells was given by Brigadier General Palmer of Berryfield House. The church is in the Bradford Deanery of the Diocese of Sarum and the parish registers from 1842 (christenings and burials) and 1843 (marriages), other than those in current use are held in the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office."^[1]