Church of St Alban
CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, CHURCH BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1230254
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Alban
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, CHURCH BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1230254
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Alban
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, CHURCH BANK
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 ST ALBAN, CHURCH BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tattenhall and District
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 48639 58611
Details
SJ 45 NE TATTENHALL C.P. CHURCH BANK
5/96 Church of St. Alban.
1/3/1967
GV II*
Church: core and tower early C16, restored and remodelled 1869-70 by John Douglas. Ashlar red sandstone, green slate roof. 4-bay nave, 5-bay aisles, 2-bay chancel, 3-stage west tower and south porch. Timber-framed porch has 4-centred arched entrance and delicately carved brackets, spandrels and barge boards. Aisle bays divided by buttresses have broad 3-light windows with 3-centred heads. 5-light Perpendicular style east window under label mould. Tower has diagonal buttresses, cyma moulded west doorcase and a 3-light west window, breaking a band of carved heads, with a crocketted ogee label mould, flanked by pairs of initialled shields below, empty niches above. Similar 3-light louvred bell openings and gargoyles support an embattled parapet. Interior: 4-bay arcades on octagonal piers has a low clerestorey with 3-light windows. Broad chancel arch on stiff-leaf corbels. Good Victorian stone reredos and stained glass with window by Kempe in south aisle of 1896. Fine brass chandelier dated 1755.
The tower closely resembles that at All Saints, Handley (q.v.) and must be by the same mason.
Listing NGR: SJ4863958611
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405170
- 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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