We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 53.2157 / 53°12'56"N
Longitude: -2.8879 / 2°53'16"W
OS Eastings: 340808
OS Northings: 369110
OS Grid: SJ408691
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.1F04
Mapcode Global: WH887.MF1L
Plus Code: 9C5V6486+7V
Entry Name: Church of the Holy Ascension
Listing Date: 1 June 1967
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1229986
English Heritage Legacy ID: 404827
ID on this website: 101229986
Location: Holy Ascension Church, Upton, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH2
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Civil Parish: Upton-by-Chester
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Upton The Holy Ascension
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
SJ 46 NW UPTON-BY-CHESTER C.P. CHURCH LANE
(East Side)
5/39 Church of the Holy
Ascension.
1/6/1967
- II
Church: 1852-4 by James Harrison, transepts of 1958 and 1967 by A C
Bennett (Pevsner and Hubbard). Red sandstone rubble with ashlar
dressings. Red tile roof. 5-bay nave, 2-bay chancels hidden by
transepts, 3-stage towers and spire and south porch. Coped gabled
porch has hood mould over the entrance. Nave windows of 2-lights with
quatrefoil tracery. Tall coped transepts have pairs of 3-light
windows with intersecting tracery. 3-light east window with
quatrefoils. Tower has a plinth, diagonal buttresses, bands at each
floor and a solid parapet. 2-light windows, louvred in top stage.
Stone spire with 2 bands and simple slight lucarnes.
Interior: Nave has arch-braced roof trusses sprung from carved head
corbels. Chamfered 4-centred chancel arch and chancel with wagon
roof. Pair of depressed 4-centred arches to added transepts. Stained
glass by Kempe 1870-1880. Iron plaque inside porch records grant of
seats by the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement,
Building and Repairing of Churches and Chapels in England and Wales.
Listing NGR: SJ4080869110
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
