Old Vicarage and Parish Room to Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
OLD VICARAGE AND PARISH ROOM TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, PARKGATE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375900
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Old Vicarage and Parish Room to Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- Statutory Address:
- OLD VICARAGE AND PARISH ROOM TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, PARKGATE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375900
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Old Vicarage and Parish Room to Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD VICARAGE AND PARISH ROOM TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, PARKGATE ROAD
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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:
- OLD VICARAGE AND PARISH ROOM TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, PARKGATE 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 40222 67142
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ46NW PARKGATE ROAD 1932-1/2/219 (South West side) 10/01/72 Old Vicarage and Parish Room to Church of St Thomas of Canterbury (Formerly Listed as: PARKGATE ROAD St Oswald's Vicarage)
GV II
Vicarage, now English Department of Chester College. 1880. By John Douglas. Red-brown brick with plaster panels; graded Westmorland green slate roofs. PLAN: Asymmetric plan with porch and stair left, corridors in recessed central portion, attic stair, ancillary rooms and former parish room in single-storey wing, right, all facing north-east; all principal rooms face south-west garden, and views; c.f. Douglas's home, Walmoor, Dee Banks (qv). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Stair roof sweeps down to front left, apsidal 2-storey porch has stone steps to brick archway, 9-panel door in leaded half-glazed timber screen. Casements have moulded brick mullions, stone transoms to ground floor and ogee and basket-arched heads to upper lights; leaded lights, some removed. Two 3-light casements to corridor; square turret for secondary stair; 5-light casement in front gable, right. Parish room has porch in corner with house, doorway arched; a triple lancet and a pair of lancets. The second storey has terracotta jetty to porch and central bay; apsidal chapel above porch has brick strings and hoodmoulds to a lancet in each face. Two 3-light leaded casements to the upper corridor; loops to turret and a course of basket-arched lights beneath the eaves to its pyramidal roof with weather-vane; 3-light casement in right gable. Rectangular plaster panels beneath corridor windows; lozenge panels with brick diapering in gable. A lateral chimney at inner corner of porch-bay with house; a large chimney before the ridge of the central roof. The south-east end has a projecting shaped chimney behind the ridge; a French window with 2 leaded lights above and a cross-window to stair; plaster lozenge-panels in gable. The garden front has a long, simple rear wing left, dividing garden from Parish Room; a 2 storey 6-light canted bay-window, right; three 3-light casements to ground floor of central portion; a band of lozenge-panels to central portion and rectangular panels to bay window; a horizontal band of rhythmically-grouped mullioned casements to bedrooms; rear
gable-end to left bay has a basket-arched light to the first floor and a 2-light casement beneath the plastered apex to the gable. INTERIOR: has a number of features and details typical of Douglas: pine doors of 5, 6 and 9 panels with reeded stiles, muntins and rails; door furniture; fireplace surrounds with good tiles and timber detailing, with inlaid work; timber screen with leaded glazing; a good open-well stair with timber screen to landing; trusses to Parish Room roof of well-expressed simple carpentry.
Listing NGR: SJ4022267142
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469879
- 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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