Christ Church, Glasson

Christ Church stands in the quiet village of Glasson, Lancashire. Built in 1839–40 by Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe, it is an active Anglican church with a simple nave and lower chancel. The original east window was a triple stepped lancet, and the church was consecrated in June 1840. In 1931–32 Henry Paley of Austin and Paley added the present chancel and a vestry. The west gallery was enclosed in 1988 to create a separate room. The building is of sandstone rubble with a slate roof and buttressed walls. The nave has four bays, each with lancet windows; the east window remains a triple stepped lancet. Inside, a west gallery overlooks the nave, and stained glass by Joseph Fisher dates from 1979. Other windows contain 19th-century glass by Carl Almquist and E. H. Jewitt. The churchyard holds war graves of two First World War soldiers and one from the Second World War.