St Andrews United Reform Church
ST ANDREWS UNITED REFORM CHURCH, NEWGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376325
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- St Andrews United Reform Church
- Statutory Address:
- ST ANDREWS UNITED REFORM CHURCH, NEWGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376325
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1998
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- St Andrews United Reform Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST ANDREWS UNITED REFORM CHURCH, NEWGATE 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:
- ST ANDREWS UNITED REFORM CHURCH, NEWGATE 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 40675 66151
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE NEWGATE STREET 595-1/4/265 (West side (off)) Church of St Andrew
GV II
Presbyterian Church of England, now United Reformed church. 1860, by JW and J Hay and 1884 by Kelly and Edwards. Ashlar yellow sandstone and English garden wall bond brown brick, partly rendered; purple-grey slate roofs. EXTERIOR: the stone-fronted entrance is offset south of the body of the church, which has reversed liturgical orientation. The entrance front is in C13 style. Double plinth; double boarded doors on ornate hinges in archway with colonnettes; foliar capitals; ballflowers; lancet left of entrance; twin 2-light windows above entrance have trefoil and quatrefoil tracery; quatrefoil window in gable; octagonal belfry with stone spire, left; pinnacle right. The sides of the entrance and the body of the church are brick, slate-roofed. The sides of the church are simply expressed, that to north having 5 triple lancets. The liturgical west end has 5 lancets, the central one taller than the others; the liturgical east end has a rose window with stone tracery, of 1860; the body of the church was rebuilt in 1884. INTERIOR: 5 bays. Cast-iron columns carry arch-braced trusses; each bay has triple clerestory lancets above aisles with lean-to roofs. The rose window has patterned stained glass. Original pews, organ and Lord's Table. Screens to liturgical south-east and north-east corners. (Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 141; Simpson F: Manuscripts - Churches and Chapels of Chester).
Listing NGR: SJ4067566151
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470320
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harris, B, Bartholomew City Guides in Chester, (1979), 141
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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