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Latitude: 53.1903 / 53°11'24"N
Longitude: -2.8876 / 2°53'15"W
OS Eastings: 340792
OS Northings: 366277
OS Grid: SJ407662
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.3129
Mapcode Global: WH88F.M25L
Plus Code: 9C5V54R6+4X
Entry Name: Welsh Presbyterian Church and Forecourt Wall and Railings
Listing Date: 26 March 1974
Last Amended: 23 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375923
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469902
ID on this website: 101375923
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: Church building
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 ST JOHN STREET
1932-1/6/251 (East side)
26/03/74 Welsh Presbyterian Church and
forecourt wall and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
ST JOHN STREET
Welsh Congregational Church)
II
Church. 1866. By W and G Audsley of Liverpool. Tooled coursed
yellow sandstone front; brick sides and rear.
PLAN: a simple rectangle plus full-width east apse and,
narrower, a one-storey narthex, west.
EXTERIOR: the narthex has octagonal corner piers, 2
intermediate columns of polished granite, 3 pointed arches to
front with central false gable, an arch to each side; 2
boarded doors on ornate wrought-iron hinges, quatrefoil
parapet, 2 corbel heads and dragon gargoyles; a lancet to each
side of narthex; stepped buttresses at corners. A large rose
window with colonnette spokes in a recessed panel with
colonnette on each jamb; a lancet near gable apex; cruciform
finial. The sides have unpierced west bay of stone, then
brickwork with red and blue brick bands and five 2-light
windows with plate tracery; a similar window in each oblique
face of the apse and an octafoil in the east face. Green and
purple banded slate roof.
INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the paved forecourt has stone wall with 3
simple wrought-iron gates and 4 panels with wrought-iron
railings.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E:
Harmondsworth: 1971-: 153-4).
Listing NGR: SJ4079266277
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