Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/80 (East side)
28/07/55 Heritage Centre
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
(East side)
Church of St Michael (no longer in
ecclesiastical use))

GV II

Parish Church of St Michael, now Heritage Centre. C15, 1496,
1678 and 1849-50, stripped of furnishings 1972-5. By James
Harrison. The stonework is largely 1849-50; yellow sandstone
with grey slate roof. 3-stage west tower, 3-bay nave, 2-bay
chancel and former vestry.
EXTERIOR: the south end of the Bridge Street Row passes
through the open first stage of the tower, also serving as the
west porch, with stone steps up to the main Row north and down
to the pavement, south. The buttresses are octagonal to the
first stage, diagonal to the second stage and clasping to the
third stage; a string course at each stage; the second stage
has a 2-light window with simple tracery to each face; a
rectangular loop above the north window, a clock-face west and
a blank clock-face panel south; the third stage has a paired
bell-opening under an ogee hood to each face, a course of
carved panels and a stringcourse with gargoyles under a
crenellated parapet with 8 crocketed pinnacles; a wind vane.
The west window to the north aisle has 2 lights with simple
tracery; the diagonally-boarded pair of oak west doors have
ornate wrought-iron hinges. The south side of the nave has one
2-light and two 3-light traceried windows; the chancel has two
2-light traceried windows. The east end has a
diagonally-boarded oak door on wrought-iron hinges, a 4-light
reticulated east window with stained glass and a 3-light
window with stained glass by Clayton and Bell to the north
aisle; the north face is featureless and partly built against.
The walls are crenellated; the chancel's gable-coping has a
finial cross; carved heads as mould-stops. The stonework and
details are damaged by sandblasting c1975.
INTERIOR: under repair and not fully inspected, has a C15
north arcade with octagonal piers, a chancel roof of 1496,
narrower than the present building which was widened in 1678,
and a monument to Roger Comberbach, 1771 by Benjamin
Bromfield.

Listing NGR: SJ4058766102

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Michael's Church at Wikipedia
• St Michael's Church official website
• Wikidata Q7594752

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)