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DescriptionChrist Church, Welshpool. Terracotta detailing on thearch above the limestone Romanesque revival column capital.JPG	Terracotta detailing on the limestone Romanesque revival column capital This is a photo of listed building number 7778.
Date	8 September 2013, 16:34:54
Source	Own work
Author	Tyssul

Camera location	52° 39′ 33.12″ N, 3° 09′ 05.4″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	52.659200; -3.151500

Christ Church was commissioned by the Earl of Powys to commemorate his son, Edward James, the Viscount Clive, having come of age. It was designed by Thomas Penson and completed 1839-44. The church is characterised by its impressive Romanesque Revival architecture in Welsh Trachyte (from the Earl’s nearbyStandard quarry), consisting of a 7-bay nave with offset west tower, lean-to aisles, apse and south porch. The west gable of the nave has a wide doorway with triple arches with chevron moulding, while the tower is supported by massive pilaster buttresses.
Christ Church was most noted for its interior decoration, and in particular its early use of terracotta, for example in the heavily ornamented arches and font.
The congregation of Christ Church dropped dramatically during the twentieth century and in 1999 it was closed and sold for redevelopment. Haslam Buildings of Wales: Powys". Penguin/Yale 208-209 (2nd ed to appear in Nov 2013)

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