Tower of Former Church of St Chad
TOWER OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST CHAD, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1279389
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tower of Former Church of St Chad
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST CHAD, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1279389
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tower of Former Church of St Chad
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST CHAD, MAIN ROAD
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:
- TOWER OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST CHAD, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wybunbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 70004 49872
Details
WYBUNBURY C.P. MAIN ROAD SJ 74 NW 11/110 Tower of former Church of St Chad. (Formerly listed as Church of St Chad). 12.1.67 G.V. II*
Church Tower C15 or C16. Sandstone ashlar with lead roof. Square tower of 5 stages. Western front: Moulded projecting plinth with chamfered top and string courses between stages, all common to whole building. Clasping buttresses to lower body (probably of early C19 date) dying to diagonal buttresses via broaches. Central doorway with richly moulded deep reveal (probably recarved in the C19). Quatrefoils to spandrels and niches to either side with crocketed ogee heads each containing a sculpture of a bishop. Pair of decorated square panels above immediately below the brattished string course. Central window above with 3-light interlacing tracery in casement moulded surround of C19 date. Niches to either side with statues under projecting canopies with crocketed spirelets above. Brattished string course above. Central niche to third stage similar to those at the second stage here holding a statue of a king with sword. The fourth stage has a central square wrought iron clock face. The fifth stage has two 2-light belfry openings under a common ogee hood-mould. Above are a row of decorated square panels. There are gargoyles to the angles and centre. The battlemented parapet has crocketed pinacles to the corners. The North and South faces are similar save for the lack of niches and the door and that they each have a 2-light window to the third stage. The rear has a cambered archway originally giving access to the church the ridge of which rose to the top of the second stage. The third stage has a lancet but no clock face. The tower lists to the north due to the sandy soil on which it is built. At the time of the re-survey (1985) it is in danger of collapse. In 1833 the earlier church was demolished and the tower straightened by James Trubshaw who erected a new body consisting of nave and chancel loosely based upon the previous building. This was in turn replaced in 1892-3 by a church by James Brooks which was demolished c.1976. Source: Nikolaus Pevsner & Edward Hubbard - The Buildings of England:Cheshire.
Listing NGR: SJ7000449872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57020
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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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