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Latitude: 53.1873 / 53°11'14"N
Longitude: -2.8899 / 2°53'23"W
OS Eastings: 340630
OS Northings: 365948
OS Grid: SJ406659
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.36HF
Mapcode Global: WH88F.L41W
Plus Code: 9C5V54P6+W2
Entry Name: St Olaves Exhibition Centre Including Forecourt Walls and Railings
Listing Date: 28 July 1955
Last Amended: 6 August 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376319
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470314
ID on this website: 101376319
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 English Gothic architecture
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4065NE LOWER BRIDGE STREET
595-1/6/260 (East side)
28/07/55 St Olave's Exhibition Centre
including forecourt walls and
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWER BRIDGE STREET
(East side)
Church of St Olave's & attached
forecourt railings)
GV II
Church, now exhibition centre. Founded C11, the present
building probably of mid C15, restored with some alteration
1859 by James Harrison and converted to exhibition centre with
little alteration 1980s. The forecourt walls, which formerly
supported a building in front of the Row walk, are of medieval
origin. Red sandstone rubble; grey slate roof.
EXTERIOR: a simple hall church. Renewed elliptical-arched west
doorway, boarded double door, restored 3-light panel-tracery
window above doorway; small gabled stone bellcote. The south
side has a rectangular 3-light mullioned window and a 1-light
window with cusped head further east. North windows similar,
but the rectangular window is of 2 lights; leaded glazing. The
east end has a renewed segmental-arched window of 3 cusped
lights with three small modern stained-glass panels.
INTERIOR is very simple, plastered throughout. The side walls
lean outward noticeably.
The forecourt at former Row level has sandstone rubble
retaining wall with flight of 10 simple stone steps up from St
Olave's Street, north; wrought-iron railing to St Olave's
Street and steps; the modern steel railing to west and south
are not included in this item.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard EH: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-: 152; Chester Rows Research Project:
Grenville J: Lower Bridge Street, East: 1988-).
Listing NGR: SJ4063065948
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