Church of the Holy Ascension
CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229986
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Ascension
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229986
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Ascension
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION, CHURCH LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Upton-by-Chester
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40808 69110
Details
SJ 46 NW UPTON-BY-CHESTER C.P. CHURCH LANE (East Side)
5/39 Church of the Holy Ascension. 1/6/1967
- II
Church: 1852-4 by James Harrison, transepts of 1958 and 1967 by A C Bennett (Pevsner and Hubbard). Red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Red tile roof. 5-bay nave, 2-bay chancels hidden by transepts, 3-stage towers and spire and south porch. Coped gabled porch has hood mould over the entrance. Nave windows of 2-lights with quatrefoil tracery. Tall coped transepts have pairs of 3-light windows with intersecting tracery. 3-light east window with quatrefoils. Tower has a plinth, diagonal buttresses, bands at each floor and a solid parapet. 2-light windows, louvred in top stage. Stone spire with 2 bands and simple slight lucarnes. Interior: Nave has arch-braced roof trusses sprung from carved head corbels. Chamfered 4-centred chancel arch and chancel with wagon roof. Pair of depressed 4-centred arches to added transepts. Stained glass by Kempe 1870-1880. Iron plaque inside porch records grant of seats by the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building and Repairing of Churches and Chapels in England and Wales.
Listing NGR: SJ4080869110
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404827
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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