Church Of St Werburgh is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1998. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church Of St Werburgh
- WRENN ID
- dark-tin-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1998
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 GROSVENOR PARK ROAD 1932-1/6/143 (West side) Church of St Werburgh
GV II
Roman Catholic church. 1873-5 and 1913-14 by Edmund Kirby. Buff sandstone; grey slate roofs. Continuous aisled nave and sanctuary, liturgical orientation reversed. EXTERIOR: the west front is symmetrical; projecting nave-width porch has pair of boarded doors with statue of St Werburgh on column between; a pair of lancets in recessed arch to each side of statue. The porch is gabled, and with gabled parapet to each side-wall. The gabled west end of the nave has triple lancets, flanked by flat gabled buttresses. A lancet in west end of each aisle; loop in nave gable; cross finial. The aisles have buttresses between paired lancets; cross-gabled wings. 15 clerestory lancets to each side of nave and sanctuary; Apsidal east end with 5 lancets; ambulatory. INTERIOR: has alternating round and octagonal columns with rich foliar capitals; boarded wagon roof with trusses having stop-chamfered ties and octagonal posts; arched sanctuary truss with timber tracery.
Listing NGR: SJ4113566367
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