Guildhall

The Guildhall is a church, rebuilt in the Geometrical Decorated style between 1865 and 1869 to the design of James Harrison, who was later succeeded by Kelly and Edwards of Chester. It occupies the site of one of the city's nine medieval parish churches and was converted to a Guildhall in the early 1960s. Constructed primarily from red sandstone with grey slate roofs, the building incorporates a continuous nave and chancel, a west porch, a detached south spire and porch, and a south priest's vestry.

The west window, of seven lights, has intricate geometrical tracery above a gabled porch. The south aisle features traceried windows of three and four lights, with a seven-light east window mirroring the west window's tracery. North aisle windows have been blocked in the 20th century, except for those in the chancel and east end, which retain their traceried details. The clerestory displays two-light windows to the nave and paired lancets in the chancel.

The south spire has a three-stage tower. A pair of oak-boarded double doors lead into the eastern face, above which are blank tracery panels featuring a relief sculpture of Christ enthroned, all under a gable moulding. A traceried two-light window is situated in the south wall. The second stage includes a lancet and a clock face to the east and south. Further north, the third stage displays traceried two-light bell-openings. Corner buttresses and a pierced parapet are present, topped with a recessed octagonal stone spire, featuring three lucarnes to each cardinal face, the lowest of which accommodate two-light traceried windows.

The interior has been largely stripped of its original fittings and incorporates inserted timber partitions to the south aisle, chancel and its north aisle. The arcade consists of six nave bays and two chancel bays, exhibiting octagonal piers and corbelled clerestory shafts supporting arch-braced trusses. The chancel is defined by a heavier truss on paired shafts. The east window's glass depicts God, key Old Testament figures, and associated saints, some linked to the dioceses of Lichfield and Chester. The western window on the south side portrays Christ, Isaiah, and David. The remains of the former chancel screen are preserved behind a partition within the east chamber, while the reredos is concealed behind lightweight cladding beneath the east window.