Christ Church, Warminster
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| Christ Church | |
 Christ Church Warminster |
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| Building information | |
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| Town | Warminster |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Construction start date | 1830 |
| Completion date | 1831 |
| Style | victorian-gothic |
| Size | medium! |
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[edit] General
Christ Church serves a Parish on the southern side of Warminster. The Church is evangelical in tradition and the 9.30 family service on Sundays is lively, although the Church welcomes people of all traditions, the 11am Sunday Morning Worship service is more reflective in style and spirituality.
[edit] History
The Church was built in 1830 to serve what was then Warminster Common.
[edit] Building Developments
The Church was expanded in the 1871 with the addition of the Chancel and Vestry. In 1881 the ceiling of the worship area, which was becoming unstable, was replaced with the wooden beams and pillars that are still present n the building
During the late 1960's an attempt was made to modernise the worship in the Church, and a nave Altar was built. This was a very controversial move and led, eventually, to a consistory court.
In 2004 Christ Church under went a redevelopment project that removed the controversial Nave Altar and pews, and created a modern and functional welcome / fellowship area in the lobby of the Church building. The result is a crisp, attractive and very functional Church building, with modern AV system.
[edit] Consistory Court
The building of the Nave Altar in the 1960s was controversial. The Vicar, acting with the best intentions wanted to symbolically bring the worship of the Church to a more central place in the Church. However this move divided the Church and a number of the congregation and those outside the congregation complained that there had been no consultation. Eventually a Parishioner appealed to an ecclesiastical court.
