Chester Magistrates Court
CHESTER MAGISTRATES COURT, 3, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376367
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Chester Magistrates Court
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTER MAGISTRATES COURT, 3, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376367
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Chester Magistrates Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTER MAGISTRATES COURT, 3, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
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:
- CHESTER MAGISTRATES COURT, 3, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
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 40508 66472
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/315 (East side) 10/01/72 Chester Magistrates Court No.3 (Formerly Listed as: NORTHGATE STREET (East side) Barclays Bank)
GV II
Magistrates' court and offices, formerly part of the King's School which included the Cathedral Choir School. 1875-7. By Sir Arthur Blomfield. Reddish buff sandstone; brown clay tile roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 7 bays. The wing of the former school is expressed as the main range of a Tudor hall with the great hall on its upper storey. Moulded plinth; buttresses; moulded stringcourses; arched doorway with 2-light mullioned overlight; mullioned and transomed windows of 2 and 3 lights; all glazing to Northgate Street leaded; the south bay projects slightly with side-buttresses; gargoyles; crenellated parapet; coped end-gables; red terracotta ridge-tiles with conical-roofed vents. The gable-end to St Werburgh Street has a 2-light mullioned and transomed window to the lower storey and a 5-light panel-traceried upper window under a 4-centre arch. The magistrates' court wing is linked to the cathedral by an east wing forming part of the same design, now Barclays Bank, St Werburgh Street (qv). INTERIOR: the courtroom and an interview room face Northgate Street; 9-panel pine doors in heavy frames with finials; boarding below dado-rail; decorated chamfered main beams; plaster ceiling panels. A corridor with leaded lights to Abbey Square runs behind the courtroom, with a stone basket archway to a dogleg stone stair with winders at the turn and an oak handrail on ornate iron balusters. The upper rooms could not be inspected. (Miscellaneous Views of Chester: Blomfield AW: Engraving: Proposed new building for King's School: 1875-).
Listing NGR: SJ4050766474
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470362
- 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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