Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, NESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387703
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, NESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387703
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, NESTON 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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, NESTON ROAD
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 32864 77796
Details
NESTON
SJ3277 NESTON ROAD, Willaston Village 794-1/9/119 (North side) Christ Church
GV II
Parish church. 1854; north aisle added in 1926. Church by Fulljames & Walker; north aisle by B Miller. Tooled red Bunter sandstone in squared coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and timber and stone porch; green Westmoreland slate roofs with coped gables. PLAN: 2-bay chancel; 4-bay nave with north aisle, south porch and east bellcote. EXTERIOR: nave and chancel on plinths; diagonal buttresses to chancel; angle and diagonal buttresses to nave. East window is of 3 trefoiled lights with quatrefoil tracery in the head. Chancel windows are single trefoil-headed lights beneath quatrefoil tracery set in moulded rectangular surrounds. South porch is steeply gabled and scissor braced at the front: south door is boarded with strap hinges. Nave windows are 2 centred and have 2 trefoil-headed lights beneath trefoil tracery. The north aisle and vestry additions have gabled windows with mullions, carved as angels and the clerestory windows are trefoils. West window is of 4 lights with octofoil and mouchette tracery in the head. Moulded sill string beneath windows which generally have hoodmoulds with fruit ball stops. Chancel has wheel cross on the gable; bellcote is gabled with single pointed opening. INTERIOR: oak panelling flanks the panelled reredos and is fixed to the sanctuary side walls. Arch-braced chancel roof with exposed rafters and ashlars. Two large and one small arch separate the north aisle from the nave. The roof is arch-braced supported by elaborate corbels which consist of shafts which rise from deep clusters of vines. The rafters are exposed with ashlars as in the case of the chancel. Oak altar has 3 panels with trefoil motif. Altar rail with shield decoration, front of choir stalls with fruit motif attached to linenfold fronted reading desk. 1929 pulpit has a simple Gothic motif. Octagonal font with oak and metal strap banded cover. Stained glass by Wailes and Kempe in east window and chancel.
Listing NGR: SJ3286477796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475689
- 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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