Christ Church, Stamford, Lincolnshire

Web Site: http://www.christchurchstamford.com

Location: Green Lane, Stamford [click here for a map]
Minister: The Revd Bob Mackrill
Phone: 01780 754490

Services on Sunday: 10am and 6.30pm
Services on Sunday: 11.30am (fourth Sunday of the month)

Christ Church is the newest parish church in Stamford. In 1959 it was proposed to build a new church to serve the expanding residential area in the north of the town.

A wooden hut (still standing) was erected on Willoughby Road as a daughter church to St. Michael's, and dedicated in 1961. It was affiliated to St. John's when St. Michael's closed in 1962. For the next 10 years the hut served as a place of worship as well as a community centre.

In 1972 Christ Church became a conventional district within the parish of St. John's, and in 1975 work began on creating a permanent building which would be a parish church in its own right. Land was acquired on Green Lane, and by 1978 the flat roofed part of the building was complete. Stage 2 was to construct the main church on top of the old water tank on the site! The tank now forms a storage area below the church, which was completed in 1979. Christ Church became a formal parish in 1992.