CHURCH OF ST CHAD
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1279424
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CHAD, CHURCH ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CHAD, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403426
- 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.
End of official listing