CHURCH OF ST CHAD

CHURCH OF ST CHAD, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1279424
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST CHAD
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST CHAD, CHURCH ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-13
Reference:: IOE01/01775/22
Rights:: © Mr Michael J Tuck. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1279424
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST CHAD
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST CHAD, CHURCH ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST CHAD, CHURCH ROAD

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Farndon
National Grid Reference:: SJ 41323 54452

Details

SJ 45 SW FARNDON C.P. CHURCH ROAD

2/28 Church of St. Chad.

1/3/67

- II*

Church: C14 west tower; aisled 5-bay nave of 1660; chancel of 1660; north porch early C18; south transept C19. Coursed red sandstone with grey slate roofs. 3-stage tower has diagonal west buttresses, square east buttresses, square south-east turret; west door, inserted panel-traceried west window, 2-light reticulated bell-openings with a lancet above and a plain crenellated parapet. The aisles have square-headed windows with 4 round-headed lights; clerestorey has 5-light mullioned windows; east window has a curious arrangement of panel tracery; north porch has rusticated front with round-arched classical entrance, probably C18. Interior: Arcades of slim circular columns with plain caps carrying chamfered arches. Aisles under lean-to roofs. South transept is the Barnston chapel, with many C19 memorials and containing C17 glass in east window (Dutch influence) reset in 1894, depicting Richard Grosvenor, Sir William Mainwaring, William Barnston, Sir Francis Gamul, all royalists, and pikemen and trophies of war. Recumbent effigy of knight in north aisle. Late C19 and C20 memorial glass. Tables of benefactors dated 1679 in north aisle and dated 1786 in tower.

Listing NGR: SJ4132354452

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Legacy System number:: 403426
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.