Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287611
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287611
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH 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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, 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:
- Barnton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 63692 74796
Details
BARNTON C.P. CHURCH ROAD SJ 67 SW (North Side) 4/10 Christ Church - - II
Church: 1842, chancel added 1900 (Pevsner and Hubbard) , small extension dated 1974. Tooled ashlar pink sandstone, Welsh slate roof. 8-bay nave and chancel in one range. South porch and organ chapel. Gabled porch has diagonal buttresses and a 2-centred arch on colonnettes with a label mould on carved head stops. Bays of nave are divided by buttresses and nave lancets with label moulds on ball flower stops. Corbel table above detailed towards east end. Gabled chapel has angle buttresses, priest's door, a lancet and a blank trefoil in the gable. East and west ends are kneelered and have triple lancets. Double lancet bellcote at west end. Interior: simple nave with 2-centred arched trusses on moulded corbels. Gallery at west end on cast-iron columns above vestry. Chancel roof simpler. Reredos with washed Gothick arcading and carved Last Supper scene. Late Perpendicular or Puginesque stone pulpit with rich gothic detail (now painted) moved here from St Helen's, Witton. Brass Boer War memorial plaque to local soldier.
Listing NGR: SJ6369274796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401947
- 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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