Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE NEWGATE STREET
595-1/4/265 (West side (off))
Church of St Andrew

GV II

Presbyterian Church of England, now United Reformed church.
1860, by JW and J Hay and 1884 by Kelly and Edwards. Ashlar
yellow sandstone and English garden wall bond brown brick,
partly rendered; purple-grey slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: the stone-fronted entrance is offset south of the
body of the church, which has reversed liturgical orientation.
The entrance front is in C13 style. Double plinth; double
boarded doors on ornate hinges in archway with colonnettes;
foliar capitals; ballflowers; lancet left of entrance; twin
2-light windows above entrance have trefoil and quatrefoil
tracery; quatrefoil window in gable; octagonal belfry with
stone spire, left; pinnacle right. The sides of the entrance
and the body of the church are brick, slate-roofed. The sides
of the church are simply expressed, that to north having 5
triple lancets. The liturgical west end has 5 lancets, the
central one taller than the others; the liturgical east end
has a rose window with stone tracery, of 1860; the body of the
church was rebuilt in 1884.
INTERIOR: 5 bays. Cast-iron columns carry arch-braced trusses;
each bay has triple clerestory lancets above aisles with
lean-to roofs. The rose window has patterned stained glass.
Original pews, organ and Lord's Table. Screens to liturgical
south-east and north-east corners.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-:
141; Simpson F: Manuscripts - Churches and Chapels of
Chester).

Listing NGR: SJ4067566151

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Andrew's Church, Chester at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q16246205

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