Church at Countess of Chester Hospital 200 Metres South West of 1829 Block is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1997. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church at Countess of Chester Hospital 200 Metres South West of 1829 Block

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 November 1997
Type
Church
Address
Church at Countess of Chester Hospital 200 Metres South West of 1829 Block, CH2 1UL
OS grid reference
SJ 399 685
Coordinates
53.21089, -2.90053
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The church at Countess of Chester Hospital, built in 1856, is located 200 meters southwest of the 1829 block in Upton by Chester. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features a steep pitched roof covered with octagonal slates, designed in the Early English style. The building includes a plinth, small buttresses, moulded eaves, and coped gables. It consists of a chancel, vestries, and a nave with a bellcote and porches. The openings are sharply pointed and have hood moulds, with the windows primarily being single lancets that have deeply splayed reveals. The chancel, which is a single bay, has angle buttresses and a three-light east window, with a single lancet on each side towards the east end. The vestries feature rebuilt square gable stacks, a quatrefoil window to the east, and a door on the north and south sides. The nave has six bays and buttressed gabled porches on both the north and south sides. The west end slightly projects at the center and includes a sill band with a tall two-light window. Above this window is a gabled bellcote with blocked openings that houses a clock, flanked by single lancets on either side.

Inside, the church has a rendered and painted interior with pointed arched openings and hood moulds. The chancel features a moulded arch, with a door to the left and a small organ case to the right. It has a plain matchboard ceiling with a cornice, and the east window contains stained glass dated 1885. The nave has a common rafter roof with intersecting arch braces and a king post. At the west end, there is a tall recess that holds a large traceried panelled wooden cabinet with an attached bench, which contains a clock mechanism dated 1856 by Joyce of Whitchurch, along with a small clock dial at the top. The fittings include an octagonal wooden pulpit, which may be original but was altered in the mid-20th century, along with other mid-20th century fittings.

Local climate

Church at Countess of Chester Hospital 200 Metres South West of 1829 Block receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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