Rectory, Hall and Buildings of St Marys Church, Handbridge
RECTORY, HALL AND BUILDINGS OF ST MARYS CHURCH, HANDBRIDGE, OVERLEIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375896
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory, Hall and Buildings of St Marys Church, Handbridge
- Statutory Address:
- RECTORY, HALL AND BUILDINGS OF ST MARYS CHURCH, HANDBRIDGE, OVERLEIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375896
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory, Hall and Buildings of St Marys Church, Handbridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECTORY, HALL AND BUILDINGS OF ST MARYS CHURCH, HANDBRIDGE, OVERLEIGH 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:
- RECTORY, HALL AND BUILDINGS OF ST MARYS CHURCH, HANDBRIDGE, OVERLEIGH 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 40619 65463
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4065 OVERLEIGH ROAD 1932-1/8/205 (North West side) 10/01/72 Rectory, hall and buildings of St Mary's Church, Handbridge (Formerly Listed as: OVERLEIGH ROAD The Rectory)
GV II
Substantial parsonage house and dependant buildings. c1890. By Grayson and Ould, probably at expense of the Duke of Westminster. Red brick, pargeting, brown clay tile roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and roof attic, double fronted, with former hall and service wing, right. Complex oak-panelled door in brick pilaster case with large shell hood on ornate brackets; double-transomed small-pane casement to each side; projecting wings have irregular window-patterns; a secondary door right. Moulded brick first-floor string course; a mullioned and transomed 5-light small-pane oriel above entrance; pargeted gablet; corbelled corner pilasters and a 4-light mullioned and transomed casement to each wing, in frames proud of wall surface; pargeted front gable to each wing, with bull's-eye window in brick surround; roof sweeps down to eaves of central bay; a roof dormer of two 6-pane lights under a pargeted gable. Shaped red-brick chimneys. The left side, with projecting chimney, is relatively simple. The rear has double oak doors with fanlight under basket arch, a large 2-storey canted 5-light bay window to each side and a nearly flush 12-pane sash above the doorway. The projecting secondary right wing, with former church hall, has a round-arched oak door, left; front gable, shaped, with 3 camber-arched sashes and a bull's-eye. INTERIOR not inspected. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-: 174; Ordnance Survey : 1:2500: Plan 38/15, 2nd Edition, Cheshire: 1897-1898).
Listing NGR: SJ4061965463
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469875
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971), 174
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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