Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Welsh Presbyterian Church, Chester at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7981969

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)