St Olaves Exhibition Centre Including Forecourt Walls and Railings
ST OLAVES EXHIBITION CENTRE INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376319
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- St Olaves Exhibition Centre Including Forecourt Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- ST OLAVES EXHIBITION CENTRE INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376319
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- St Olaves Exhibition Centre Including Forecourt Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST OLAVES EXHIBITION CENTRE INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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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:
- ST OLAVES EXHIBITION CENTRE INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, LOWER BRIDGE 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 40630 65948
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4065NE LOWER BRIDGE STREET 595-1/6/260 (East side) 28/07/55 St Olave's Exhibition Centre including forecourt walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: LOWER BRIDGE STREET (East side) Church of St Olave's & attached forecourt railings)
GV II
Church, now exhibition centre. Founded C11, the present building probably of mid C15, restored with some alteration 1859 by James Harrison and converted to exhibition centre with little alteration 1980s. The forecourt walls, which formerly supported a building in front of the Row walk, are of medieval origin. Red sandstone rubble; grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: a simple hall church. Renewed elliptical-arched west doorway, boarded double door, restored 3-light panel-tracery window above doorway; small gabled stone bellcote. The south side has a rectangular 3-light mullioned window and a 1-light window with cusped head further east. North windows similar, but the rectangular window is of 2 lights; leaded glazing. The east end has a renewed segmental-arched window of 3 cusped lights with three small modern stained-glass panels. INTERIOR is very simple, plastered throughout. The side walls lean outward noticeably. The forecourt at former Row level has sandstone rubble retaining wall with flight of 10 simple stone steps up from St Olave's Street, north; wrought-iron railing to St Olave's Street and steps; the modern steel railing to west and south are not included in this item. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard EH: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-: 152; Chester Rows Research Project: Grenville J: Lower Bridge Street, East: 1988-).
Listing NGR: SJ4063065948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470314
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971), 152
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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