Church of St Werburgh
CHURCH OF ST WERBURGH, GROSVENOR PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375835
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Werburgh
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST WERBURGH, GROSVENOR PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375835
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Werburgh
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST WERBURGH, GROSVENOR PARK 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:
- CHURCH OF ST WERBURGH, GROSVENOR PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41135 66367
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 GROSVENOR PARK ROAD 1932-1/6/143 (West side) Church of St Werburgh
GV II
Roman Catholic church. 1873-5 and 1913-14 by Edmund Kirby. Buff sandstone; grey slate roofs. Continuous aisled nave and sanctuary, liturgical orientation reversed. EXTERIOR: the west front is symmetrical; projecting nave-width porch has pair of boarded doors with statue of St Werburgh on column between; a pair of lancets in recessed arch to each side of statue. The porch is gabled, and with gabled parapet to each side-wall. The gabled west end of the nave has triple lancets, flanked by flat gabled buttresses. A lancet in west end of each aisle; loop in nave gable; cross finial. The aisles have buttresses between paired lancets; cross-gabled wings. 15 clerestory lancets to each side of nave and sanctuary; Apsidal east end with 5 lancets; ambulatory. INTERIOR: has alternating round and octagonal columns with rich foliar capitals; boarded wagon roof with trusses having stop-chamfered ties and octagonal posts; arched sanctuary truss with timber tracery.
Listing NGR: SJ4113566367
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469814
- 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.
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