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Latitude: 53.179 / 53°10'44"N
Longitude: -2.915 / 2°54'54"W
OS Eastings: 338941
OS Northings: 365049
OS Grid: SJ389650
Mapcode National: GBR 79.3LDX
Mapcode Global: WH88F.6C47
Plus Code: 9C5V53HM+JX
Entry Name: Church of St Mark
Listing Date: 17 February 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375857
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469836
ID on this website: 101375857
Location: St Mark's Church, Saltney, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH4
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Handbridge Park
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Lache-cum-Saltney St Mark
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ3865 HOUGH GREEN
1932-1/7/179 (South side)
17/02/94 Church of St Mark
GV II
Parish church. 1892. By TM Lockwood. Ruabon red brick with
graded Westmorland green slate roof; simply expressed.
PLAN: nave, north porch, north-east vestry, apsidal chancel,
apsidal south chapel, ridge bellcote.
EXTERIOR: the west end has triple lancets under a relieving
arch between stepped buttresses. The west bay of the north
side has a lancet; gabled north porch, timber-framed on high
brick plinth, with shaped plaster panels, oak-boarded double
doors in opening with lintel inscribed "HOLINESS BECOMETH
THINE HOUSE"; the 3 eastern bays of the nave have stepped
buttresses and alternately single and dual lancets. The
cross-gabled vestry has basket-arched boarded door in west
side and 2 lancets to north. The chancel apse has a
stone-dressed cusped lancet in each oblique face and paired
lancets in east face. The south chapel has a cusped lancet in
each side of apse. An outshut, south, has a pair of brick
lancets; the gable behind has triple stone-dressed lancets;
steeple-bell-cote on nave ridge has tapered slated sides, a
tier of small shaped panels, 3-tier louvres and an octagonal
belled steeple with weathercock. The nave roof has 3 gabled
louvred lucarnes to each side. Foundation stone on north wall
of nave inscribed "THIS STONE WAS LAID BY THE COUNTESS
GROSVENOR AUGUST 6 1892."
INTERIOR: the nave has boarded floor, brick dado to plastered
walls, 4 hammer-beam trusses and exposed purlins and rafters;
font on polished colonnettes; original pews. The chancel is
more richly furnished; glass by Tower.
Listing NGR: SJ3894165049
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