Church of St Chad
CHURCH OF ST CHAD, CHESTER ROAD A41
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136242
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Chad
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CHAD, CHESTER ROAD A41
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136242
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Chad
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CHAD, CHESTER ROAD A41
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CHAD, CHESTER ROAD A41
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tushingham-cum-Grindley, Macefen and Bradley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 52235 46443
Details
TUSHINGHAM CUM GRINDLEY C.P. CHESTER ROAD A41 SJ 54 NW (East side) 3/79 Church of St Chad 1/3/1967 II
Church 1860-63 by Robert Jennings of Atherstone, with west tower 1897 by Hodgson Fowler; of red sandstone with grey slate roofs. Cruciform; 3-stage tower; aisleless 3-bay nave with south porch; l-bay transepts; 2-bay chancel; sacristy in corner of chancel and north transept. The crenelated tower of coursed tooled masonry is Perpendicular with octagonal north-west turret, panel tracery in west window of 3 lights and bell openings of 2 lights, St Chad in niche on south side of lower stage and 1-light trefoil-headed window in north and south sides to bellringers' chamber. The body of the church of random rubble, Early English, has lancet windows with hoodmoulds on stiff-leaf corbels, square buttresses and coped gables with kneelers and finials. Interior: Plastered with stone dressings. Chancel arch with half-octagon responds; transept arches with half-round responds; encaustic tile floor. Arch-braced nave roof; braced collar trusses to chancel roof. Memorials and commemoration windows to members of Kenyon and Vaudrey families, died 1866 to 1917; north window of north transept in memory of Catherine Elizabeth Kenyon, widow of Hon.Edward Kenyon, given by her brother in 1904 - vigorously expressed. Octagonal font on colonnettes in west tower baptistry.
Listing NGR: SJ5223746444
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55622
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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