Description

SJ4066SE
595-1/4/353
23/05/67

CHESTER CITY (IM)
ST WERBURGH STREET
(East side)

Nos.20 AND 22
St Oswalds Chambers

II

GV

Offices, now opticians. 1898. By John Douglas as architect and
probably developer. Squared snecked red sandstone rubble,
timber frame with plaster panels and red Ruabon brick; hipped
Westmorland green slate roof; the building is almost detached.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, double-fronted, asymmetric. The front has
a shaped 9-panel door now glazed in a basket archway with
colonnettes, 18;98 in spandrels and SAINT OSWALD CHAMBERS
above; a 4-light leaded ovolo-mullioned casement north and a
shop window south with leaded glazing in stallriser. The
timber-framed second storey has a 4-light mullioned and
transomed leaded casement, north, the upper lights with
patterned leading, under a carved lintel; a similar window of
3 lights above the doorway; a casement of 3;3;3 lights around
the south-west corner, above small-framing with cusped-arch
heads; dormer gables with richly carved bargeboards over the
north and central casements; a short octagonal spire over the
south-west window has a weathervane on the lead finial. The
north side has a 3-light mullioned and leaded casement and
three 4-light mullioned and transomed casements to the first
storey and a similar series, with leading removed, to the
second storey. The south side has a 2-light casement plus a
1-light casement at the canted south-east corner; the second
storey has a casement with leading removed. The rear wing, of
brick to the lower storey and framed above, has 2 casements to
each storey with some leaded glazing. 3 shaped brick chimneys.
INTERIOR: has some alterations and covered surfaces, but
retains features including doors.
(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 192).

Listing NGR: SJ 40637 66405

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Oswald's Chambers, Chester at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q1590208

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)