Church of St Mark
CHURCH OF ST MARK, HOUGH GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375857
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, HOUGH GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375857
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARK, HOUGH GREEN
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 MARK, HOUGH GREEN
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 38941 65049
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ3865 HOUGH GREEN 1932-1/7/179 (South side) 17/02/94 Church of St Mark
GV II
Parish church. 1892. By TM Lockwood. Ruabon red brick with graded Westmorland green slate roof; simply expressed. PLAN: nave, north porch, north-east vestry, apsidal chancel, apsidal south chapel, ridge bellcote. EXTERIOR: the west end has triple lancets under a relieving arch between stepped buttresses. The west bay of the north side has a lancet; gabled north porch, timber-framed on high brick plinth, with shaped plaster panels, oak-boarded double doors in opening with lintel inscribed "HOLINESS BECOMETH THINE HOUSE"; the 3 eastern bays of the nave have stepped buttresses and alternately single and dual lancets. The cross-gabled vestry has basket-arched boarded door in west side and 2 lancets to north. The chancel apse has a stone-dressed cusped lancet in each oblique face and paired lancets in east face. The south chapel has a cusped lancet in each side of apse. An outshut, south, has a pair of brick lancets; the gable behind has triple stone-dressed lancets; steeple-bell-cote on nave ridge has tapered slated sides, a tier of small shaped panels, 3-tier louvres and an octagonal belled steeple with weathercock. The nave roof has 3 gabled louvred lucarnes to each side. Foundation stone on north wall of nave inscribed "THIS STONE WAS LAID BY THE COUNTESS GROSVENOR AUGUST 6 1892." INTERIOR: the nave has boarded floor, brick dado to plastered walls, 4 hammer-beam trusses and exposed purlins and rafters; font on polished colonnettes; original pews. The chancel is more richly furnished; glass by Tower.
Listing NGR: SJ3894165049
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469836
- 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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