Church Of St Werburgh

The Church of St Werburgh is a Roman Catholic church located on Grosvenor Park Road in Chester, built between 1873 and 1875, with later additions from 1913 to 1914 by architect Edmund Kirby. The church is constructed of buff sandstone and features grey slate roofs.

The exterior showcases a symmetrical west front with a projecting porch that spans the width of the nave. This porch contains a pair of boarded doors and a statue of St Werburgh on a column between the doors, with a pair of lancet windows in a recessed arch on either side. The porch is topped with a gabled roof and has gabled parapets on the side walls. The gabled west end of the nave is adorned with triple lancets, flanked by flat gabled buttresses, and there is a single lancet in the west end of each aisle, along with a loop in the nave gable and a cross finial. The aisles feature buttresses between paired lancets and cross-gabled wings. There are 15 clerestory lancets on each side of the nave and sanctuary, leading to an apsidal east end with five lancets and an ambulatory.

Inside, the church has alternating round and octagonal columns topped with rich foliar capitals. The roof is a boarded wagon type, supported by trusses that have stop-chamfered ties and octagonal posts, with an arched sanctuary truss featuring timber tracery.