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Latitude: 53.1908 / 53°11'27"N
Longitude: -2.8842 / 2°53'3"W
OS Eastings: 341020
OS Northings: 366337
OS Grid: SJ410663
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.2V7N
Mapcode Global: WH88F.N2S5
Plus Code: 9C5V54R8+88
Entry Name: Love Street School (St Werburgh Middle School)
Listing Date: 14 December 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375873
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469852
ID on this website: 101375873
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 LOVE STREET
1932-1/6/190 (East side)
14/12/92 Love Street School (St Werburgh
Middle School)
II
School. 1909 by H Beswick for Chester City Council. Hard red
brick dressed with yellow terracotta; grey slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys south to Union Street, 3 storeys north to
Forest Street, plus attic. The south face has 4
pediment-gables; each with two 20-pane hopper windows per
storey; flush sillbands; moulded sills; staggered voussoirs to
window-heads linked by double floor-bands; gables of banded
brick with blank shields and triangular pediments to the 2
central bays, broken pediments to the unequally projecting end
bays. Boys' entrance pavilion, left, and girls', right, each
of one storey plus attic; round-arched terracotta entrances
with banding, pediments and dressings; pedimented gable to
attic window.
The 3-storey block to Forest Street rises behind, with
nicely-placed furnace-chimney expressed as campanile, with
timber-framed cantilevered bell-cote. Gable towards Love
Street has terracotta apex inscribed "CITY OF CHESTER COUNCIL
SCHOOL: AD 1909".
The north face to Forest Street has 20-pane hopper windows to
ground floor and first floor, and a large round-arched window
in front gable-end of each flanking bay. Stair-well expressed
on facade; end pavilions.
INTERIOR not inspected.
The elements of the building are well-composed, providing a
good asymmetrical grouping when seen from Vicar's Lane and
Love Street.
Building vacant at time of survey.
(Chester City Council and Committee: Education Committee
Minutes: 1908-1910: PASSIM).
Listing NGR: SJ4102066337
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