Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 GROSVENOR PARK ROAD
1932-1/6/141 (East side)
10/01/72 Zion Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
GROSVENOR PARK ROAD
Baptist Church)

GV II

Baptist church, now Zion chapel. 1879-80. By John Douglas.
Stone-dressed red brick; red-brown clay tile roof. Undercroft,
church and ancillary rooms in a small wing at west end of each
side, over which the main roof sweeps down.
EXTERIOR: the symmetrical west front has corner turrets with
eaves lower than those to the church; each turret has double
boarded doors in moulded pointed-arched stone openings. 3
mullioned 3-light windows to basement in railed area between
turrets. The main gable-end is of 3 bays divided by moulded
stone projections; 2 lancets to lower part of each bay; a
Geometrical 2-light window to upper part of each bay, the
central window being tall. Steep stone-coped gable. The corner
turrets diminish to octagons in plan immediately beneath the
boldly projecting eaves of spires. 3 bays to each side have
triple lancets, stone-dressed in recessed arched brick panels;
the bays divided by stone-dressed buttresses. The north and
south wings have cross-windows in their west faces. 2 louvred
and gabled lucarnes on each slope of main roof.
INTERIOR has a west gallery. Detailing is simple.
The chapel is an important element of the excellently-composed
group of buildings east of Grosvenor Park Road by John
Douglas.
(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 114,
249-50).

Listing NGR: SJ4117266432

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Zion Chapel, Chester at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q8072497

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