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Latitude: 53.1798 / 53°10'47"N
Longitude: -2.8945 / 2°53'40"W
OS Eastings: 340317
OS Northings: 365115
OS Grid: SJ403651
Mapcode National: GBR 79.3RDN
Mapcode Global: WH88F.HBXN
Plus Code: 9C5V54H4+W6
Entry Name: West Chapel in South Part of Overleigh Cemetery
Listing Date: 23 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375895
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469874
Also known as: St Barbara's Orthodox Church
ID on this website: 101375895
Location: General Cemetery, Handbridge, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH4
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Handbridge Park
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St Mary without the Walls
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Church building
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4065 OVERLEIGH ROAD
1932-1/8/218 (South side)
West chapel in south part of
Overleigh Cemetery
GV II
Church of England cemetery chapel, now Orthodox church. Early
C20. Stone-dressed hard red brick with grey-green slate roof.
In the manner of John Douglas.
PLAN: rectangular in plan, including north aisle abutting
north-west tower containing porch; small south outshut under
lean-to roof.
EXTERIOR: 3-stage tower with broach spire; stepped buttresses;
open porch in tower with west archway and double boarded doors
in archways south and east to nave and aisle and cross-beamed
boarded ceiling; 5-light bluntly-pointed west window to nave
with panel tracery; crosses to porch-arch and nave-gable;
second stage of tower has an ogee light to west, north and
east; clock-stage has stone dial to north and 2-light window
flanked by stone panels, and with blank panel-tracery, to
west, south and east. The north aisle has two 3-light windows
with blank panel tracery in rectangular openings; an arched
2-light panel-traceried window under north window to east bay;
a pair of boarded bier-doors in archway to east. A
bluntly-pointed arch to 5-light panel-tracery east window;
gable cross. Boarded door in east face of south outshut; a
rectangular window of 3 basket-arched lights and one of 2
lights in south face; boarded door in arch, west. A
segmental-arched 3-light panel-tracery window to nave; blank
west bay opposite tower-porch.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ4031765115
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