B BLOCK
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1245520
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1985
- Statutory Address:
- B BLOCK, CASTLE SQUARE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- B BLOCK, CASTLE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chester Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40446 65762
Details
SJ 4065 NW CHESTER CASTLE CASTLE SQUARE
4/606 B Block
GV I
Armoury now Officers' Mess. 1804. By Thomas Harrison of Chester. Cuyper
sandstone ashlar from the Manley quarries and Bunter sandstone ashlar with slate
roofs and lead flashings. Two storeys. Facade facing Castle Square: 9 bays
with high projecting plinth supporting monolithic ½-columns of Greek Doric form
between bays and at the ends. These support a projecting plain entablature with
parapet above resting on slightly projecting plinth and divided by projecting
piers. Between the floors and set between the ½-columns is a series of plain
panels with moulded surrounds forming a sort of decorated band. Central ground
floor double doorway with doors of 3 panels each with rectangular overlight.
Moulded surround and pedimental overdoor supported on fluted consoles which
terminate in roundels. Ground floor sash windows to either side of 3 x 4 panes
(as are all the ground floor windows of the block) here with aedicular surrounds
of compressed entablature supported by fluted consoles. First floor sash
windows of 3 x 2 panes. Arch way adjoining front at left and joining with
lateral colonnade of Assize Courts Block (q.v.), of rusticated stone with
segmental arch, dentilled cornice and central panel to parapet with moulded
surround. Left hand side: 3 bays. Slightly projecting high plinth; panel
between floors and entablature as at front. Central double ground floor doors
with rectangular fanlight above and blank windows to either side. Central sash
window to first floor of 3 x 3 panes with blank windows to either side. Right
hand side of 3 bays with plinth, panel and entablature as at left. Blank
central window with sash windows to either side of 3 x 4 panes. First floor
central window 3 x 2 sash panes with blank windows to either side. The front
and side elevations were paid for by the county, the rear by the government. Of
major importance as an element in the composition formed of the Assize Court
Block, Propylaea and A and B Blocks.
Sources: Frank Simpson - "Chester Castle AD 907-1925". Journal of
the Architectural, Archaeological and His-
toric Society, Chester and North Wales.
New Series Vol.XXVI Part II.
Nikolaus Pevsner and - The Buildings of England : Cheshire.
Edward Hubbard
J Mordaunt Crook - "The Architecture of Thomas Harrison".
Country Life, 22 April 1971.
Moira A R Ockrim - "Thomas Harrison and the Rebuilding of
Chester Castle: A History and Reassessment".
Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society.
Vol.66, 1983.
Listing NGR: SJ4050365806
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 452905
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
'Country Life' in 22 April, (1971)
'Journal of the Chester Archeaological Society' in Journal of the Chester Archeaological Society, , Vol. 66, (1983)
'Journal of the Architectural Archaeological and Historic Society Chester and NWA' in The Architectural Archaeological and Historic Society , , Vol. 26, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing