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Christ Church, Hilderstone, was dedicated on 31 July 1833, the first stone having been laid in 1827. The church is constructed in Hollington (a local) stone in a gothic style. The architect was Thomas Trubshaw. Trubshaw was a son of a local family of masons and church builders who had been involved in church building for generations.
The church has a low tower with a spire 40 feet tall. The tower has one bell, which is tolled each Sunday. The interior of the church is 72 feet long and 32 feet wide. Christ Church has a central aisle and two side aisles. The gargoyles on the outside of the building are said to depict the workmen involved in the construction of the church and, generally speaking, are in excellent condition. The corbels inside are representations of the founder, the first incumbent and the architect.
Christ Church, Hilderstone was built with the aid of funds made available under the Church Building Acts, the first of which was in 1818. Churches built with the assistance of those funds are known as "Commissioners churches", or "Waterloo churches", since the Church Building Act 1818 was passed in part to commemorate the success in the Battle of Waterloo. Other reasons for the Acts were said to be an attempt to stem the tide of Dissent and bringing the established church to those who were not served by Church of England churches, often those affected by industrialization or living in small poorer villages.
The Lords Commissioner of the Treasury, administered the monies provided under the Acts to assist the building of Commissioners' churches. The churches built using their funds had to represent good value for money. They were to be built "with a view to accommodating the greatest number of persons at the smallest expense within the compass of an ordinary voice, one half of the number to be free seats for the poor".
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