Church at Countess of Chester Hospital 200 Metres South West of 1829 Block
CHURCH AT COUNTESS OF CHESTER HOSPITAL 200 METRES SOUTH WEST OF 1829 BLOCK, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376818
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Church at Countess of Chester Hospital 200 Metres South West of 1829 Block
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH AT COUNTESS OF CHESTER HOSPITAL 200 METRES SOUTH WEST OF 1829 BLOCK, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376818
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Church at Countess of Chester Hospital 200 Metres South West of 1829 Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH AT COUNTESS OF CHESTER HOSPITAL 200 METRES SOUTH WEST OF 1829 BLOCK, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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:
- CHURCH AT COUNTESS OF CHESTER HOSPITAL 200 METRES SOUTH WEST OF 1829 BLOCK, LIVERPOOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Upton-by-Chester
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 39956 68580
Details
SJ 36 NW
313/5/10000
UPTON BY CHESTER
LIVERPOOL ROAD
(West side)
Church at Countess of Chester Hospital 200m SW of 1829 block
II
Church. 1856. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and steep pitched roof with octagonal slates. Early English style. Plinth, small buttresses, moulded eaves, coped gables. Chancel, vestries, nave with bellcote, porches. Openings are sharply pointed, with hood moulds. Windows are mainly single lancets with deeply splayed reveals. Chancel, single bay, has angle buttresses and a 3-light east window. Towards the east end, a single lancet on each side. Vestries have rebuilt square gable stacks. To east, a quatrefoil window, to north and south, a door. Nave, 6 bays, has buttressed gabled porches to north and south. West end has a slightly projecting centre with sill band, containing a tall window, 2 lights. Above this, a gabled bellcote with blocked openings, and containing a clock. On either side, a single lancet. Interior, rendered and painted, has pointed arched openings with hood moulds. Chancel has moulded arch, flanked to left by a door and to right by a small organ case. Plain matchboard ceiling with cornice. East window has stained glass dated 1885. Nave has common rafter roof with intersecting arch braces and king post. At the west end, a tall recess containing a large traceried panelled wooden cabinet with attached bench. The cabinet contains a clock mechanism dated 1856, by Joyce of Whitchurch. At the top of the cabinet is a small clock dial. Fittings include an octagonal wooden pulpit, possibly original, altered mid C20. Other fittings mid C20.
Listing NGR: SJ3995668580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468947
- 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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