Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4065 OVERLEIGH ROAD
1932-1/8/205 (North West side)
10/01/72 Rectory, hall and buildings of St
Mary's Church, Handbridge
(Formerly Listed as:
OVERLEIGH ROAD
The Rectory)

GV II

Substantial parsonage house and dependant buildings. c1890. By
Grayson and Ould, probably at expense of the Duke of
Westminster. Red brick, pargeting, brown clay tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and roof attic, double fronted, with
former hall and service wing, right. Complex oak-panelled door
in brick pilaster case with large shell hood on ornate
brackets; double-transomed small-pane casement to each side;
projecting wings have irregular window-patterns; a secondary
door right. Moulded brick first-floor string course; a
mullioned and transomed 5-light small-pane oriel above
entrance; pargeted gablet; corbelled corner pilasters and a
4-light mullioned and transomed casement to each wing, in
frames proud of wall surface; pargeted front gable to each
wing, with bull's-eye window in brick surround; roof sweeps
down to eaves of central bay; a roof dormer of two 6-pane
lights under a pargeted gable. Shaped red-brick chimneys. The
left side, with projecting chimney, is relatively simple. The
rear has double oak doors with fanlight under basket arch, a
large 2-storey canted 5-light bay window to each side and a
nearly flush 12-pane sash above the doorway.
The projecting secondary right wing, with former church hall,
has a round-arched oak door, left; front gable, shaped, with 3
camber-arched sashes and a bull's-eye.
INTERIOR not inspected.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-: 174; Ordnance Survey : 1:2500: Plan
38/15, 2nd Edition, Cheshire: 1897-1898).

Listing NGR: SJ4061965463

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656602

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)