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Latitude: 53.1878 / 53°11'15"N
Longitude: -2.8926 / 2°53'33"W
OS Eastings: 340454
OS Northings: 366001
OS Grid: SJ404660
Mapcode National: GBR 79.35WB
Mapcode Global: WH88F.J4SJ
Plus Code: 9C5V54Q4+4X
Entry Name: Church of St Francis
Listing Date: 6 August 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376259
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470253
ID on this website: 101376259
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 (IM)
SJ4065NW GROSVENOR STREET
595-1/5/202 (North West side)
Church of St Francis
GV II
Capuchin Franciscan Church of St Francis. 1863-75. By J
O'Byrne. Red sandstone with banded grey and purple slate roof.
EXTERIOR: expressed externally as a hall church, with narthex
porch at west end having gabled front with hip-roofed wings.
Paired oak-boarded west doors on wrought-iron hinges in
shoulder-arched openings with pointed-arched 5-light leaded
window above. A pair of 2-light Geometrical windows in the
west gable of the nave flank a statue of St Francis in a
canopied niche. The north side of the church is simply
expressed with 7 pairs of shoulder-arched 1-light windows;
stone crosses on west and east end gables; a small stained
glass window in north end of narthex. The south side of the
church is similar to the north side, but largely concealed, as
is the east end.
INTERIOR: is largely plastered, painted and lined as if stone.
West gallery on octagonal pitch-pine posts has organ, north.
Wood-block floor. 6 arch-braced trusses on corbels. Arched
chancel with smaller arched chapel to each side, continuous
with nave. 2 altars to each side of nave. Reredoses behind
High Altar and altars of side chapels. Commemorative tables:
DEUS MEUS ET OMNIA; of your Charity pray for the repose of the
Soul of the VERY REV. FATHER PACIFICUS O.S.F.C. who rebuilt
this church in 1875. He died at Bruges Belgium Nov.21 1888
aged 55 years R.I.P. and DEUS MEUS ET OMNIA; Of your Charity
pray for the soul of the REV. FATHER VENATIUS O.S.F.C. who
laboured for many years in the Mission and commenced this
Church in 1863. He died in Gwalior, India, July 4th 1884 Aged
55 years. R.I.P.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 20).
Listing NGR: SJ4045466001
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