Wesleyan Methodist Church
WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, ST JOHN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375924
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, ST JOHN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375924
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, 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:
- WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, 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 40759 66231
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 ST JOHN STREET 1932-1/6/248 (West side) Wesleyan Methodist Church
II
Church. 1811. By Thomas Harrison and William Cole II of Chester. Extended, externally drastically, 1906 by PH and WT Lockwood. Earlier part built of brown brick, the later part in Ruabon red brick; grey slate roofs. PLAN/EXTERIOR: the face to St John Street, 1906, is symmetrical in indeterminate style with projecting 2-storey corner pavilions, formerly with entrances, now display windows, in front of the gabled main front with large 9-light round-arched window with quasi-panel tracery. A plaque above the window is inscribed erected 1811 : restored 1906. Stepped and rounded gable with cartouche and finial. The right side of the original chapel has 3 tall leaded windows with cambered gauged-brick heads to the aisle and 3 semicircular windows with radial-bar glazing to the gallery. The left side is similar, but with lower part of front bay concealed by the extension. The rear, now the liturgical east end, was reordered in 1906; a rainwater pipe and head at corner of nave is dated 1811 on a butterfly bracket. INTERIOR: Ionic arcades and side galleries in the unaltered parts and a round classical arch to the chancel. HISTORICAL NOTE: originally the chapel was correctly oriented, entered from the west, facing the City Walls, and with an apsidal east end to St John Street. Thomas Harrison prepared only a plan, fee 20 pounds. This was an insufficient basis for builders' estimates. William Cole II, whose son was to be Harrison's pupil, completed the working drawings and prepared specifications, fee 85 pounds. Cole evidently also acted as a contractor for masonry, carpentry and joinery, approximately half the cost of the building. The 1906 extensions and alterations included reorienting the church. The apse was demolished, the new entrance front to St John Street built and the chancel added, or reordered from the previous porch, to replace the original entrance. The later C20 wing left of the St John Street front is not included in this item. (Simpson F: Notes on Chester Churches and Chapels: 1920-1930).
Listing NGR: SJ4075966231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469903
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Simpson, F, Notes on Chester Churches and Chapels, (1920-30)
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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