Welsh Presbyterian Church and Forecourt Wall and Railings
WELSH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS, ST JOHN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375923
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Welsh Presbyterian Church and Forecourt Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- WELSH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS, ST JOHN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375923
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Welsh Presbyterian Church and Forecourt Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELSH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS, ST JOHN STREET
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:
- WELSH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS, ST JOHN STREET
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 40792 66277
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 ST JOHN STREET 1932-1/6/251 (East side) 26/03/74 Welsh Presbyterian Church and forecourt wall and railings (Formerly Listed as: ST JOHN STREET Welsh Congregational Church)
II
Church. 1866. By W and G Audsley of Liverpool. Tooled coursed yellow sandstone front; brick sides and rear. PLAN: a simple rectangle plus full-width east apse and, narrower, a one-storey narthex, west. EXTERIOR: the narthex has octagonal corner piers, 2 intermediate columns of polished granite, 3 pointed arches to front with central false gable, an arch to each side; 2 boarded doors on ornate wrought-iron hinges, quatrefoil parapet, 2 corbel heads and dragon gargoyles; a lancet to each side of narthex; stepped buttresses at corners. A large rose window with colonnette spokes in a recessed panel with colonnette on each jamb; a lancet near gable apex; cruciform finial. The sides have unpierced west bay of stone, then brickwork with red and blue brick bands and five 2-light windows with plate tracery; a similar window in each oblique face of the apse and an octafoil in the east face. Green and purple banded slate roof. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the paved forecourt has stone wall with 3 simple wrought-iron gates and 4 panels with wrought-iron railings. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Harmondsworth: 1971-: 153-4).
Listing NGR: SJ4079266277
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469902
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971), 153-4
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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