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Latitude: 53.1896 / 53°11'22"N
Longitude: -2.8862 / 2°53'10"W
OS Eastings: 340884
OS Northings: 366202
OS Grid: SJ408662
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.31FH
Mapcode Global: WH88F.M3T3
Plus Code: 9C5V54Q7+RG
Entry Name: Chester Visitor Centre
Listing Date: 23 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375861
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469840
ID on this website: 101375861
Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 LITTLE ST JOHN STREET
1932-1/6/186 (North side)
Chester Visitor Centre
GV II
St John's School, now Chester Visitor Centre. Founded 1810 by
Robert Earl Grosvenor, rebuilt 1882-3 by his grandson ER
Robson for the first Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed hard
red brick; hipped red-brown tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: expressed as 3 storeys plus attic to front, facing
St John's Church (qv), reducing the apparent scale, but 2
storeys plus attic to sides and rear. The front has unpierced
end bays, each with a round-arched recessed panel with
armorial device of stone, Grosvenor Arms and "W" to left and 3
mitres and 1883, right. The ground floor has 4 round-arched
openings holding 2 stone cross-windows between 2 pairs of
boarded double doors with dual overlights. Stone stringcourse
beneath 4 pairs of 6-pane casements alternating with recessed
stone panels; a stone apron below each end-panel holds a
square 4-pane light. The second floor has a similar stone
window-band, with slightly varied rhythm of casements and
panels. 2 stone-dressed shaped attic gables, each with two
6-pane casements. Timber hexagonal belfry on ridge has
cupola-roof, louvre band, lead finial, wind-vane.
The sides and back are similarly expressed, but with simpler
brick openings to tall classroom windows; dormer gables
similar to those at front.
INTERIOR: the structure is little altered but almost all
surfaces are covered in mock timber framing.
Listing NGR: SJ4088466202
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