Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 VICARS LANE
1932-1/6/285 (North side)
10/01/72 No.1
St John's Rectory, with front garden
wall and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
VICAR'S LANE
No.1
St John's Vicarage)

GV II

Parsonage house. 1892. Probably by TM Lockwood at expense of
the first Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed brick with blue
diapering; red-brown tile roof, double-depth.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 bays. Recessed wing, left, has 3 stone
steps to door of 2;1;2 panels; the front has a square 2-storey
bay window with Ionic corner pilasters to each storey; a
3-light mullioned and transomed ground floor window with
patterned leads to upper lights, that at centre round-arched;
the west bay has 2 cross-windows with leaded upper lights.
Moulded first-floor band; a 4-light mullioned and transomed
casement, upper lights leaded, in bay window; a 3-light
mullioned window right; diapering. A shaped gable above the
bay window has string-course rising above a 2-light attic
window, coping with volutes and finial.
The right side to Love Street has projecting stone-dressed
chimney, moulded string and leaded cross-casement to first
floor, diapering and 2 shaped gables. The rear has diapered
upper storey, leaded cross-window to stair. The left side has
pair of cross-windows to first floor, diapering and shaped
gable with 3 ball finials.
INTERIOR not inspected, but noted to retain most original
features.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: garden wall of stone-banded brick with
moulded coping curving down to panels with wrought-iron
railings, between piers.

Listing NGR: SJ4097966288

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656661

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)