West Chapel In South Part Of Overleigh Cemetery

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4065 OVERLEIGH ROAD 1932-1/8/218 (South side) West chapel in south part of Overleigh Cemetery

GV II

Church of England cemetery chapel, now Orthodox church. Early C20. Stone-dressed hard red brick with grey-green slate roof. In the manner of John Douglas. PLAN: rectangular in plan, including north aisle abutting north-west tower containing porch; small south outshut under lean-to roof. EXTERIOR: 3-stage tower with broach spire; stepped buttresses; open porch in tower with west archway and double boarded doors in archways south and east to nave and aisle and cross-beamed boarded ceiling; 5-light bluntly-pointed west window to nave with panel tracery; crosses to porch-arch and nave-gable; second stage of tower has an ogee light to west, north and east; clock-stage has stone dial to north and 2-light window flanked by stone panels, and with blank panel-tracery, to west, south and east. The north aisle has two 3-light windows with blank panel tracery in rectangular openings; an arched 2-light panel-traceried window under north window to east bay; a pair of boarded bier-doors in archway to east. A bluntly-pointed arch to 5-light panel-tracery east window; gable cross. Boarded door in east face of south outshut; a rectangular window of 3 basket-arched lights and one of 2 lights in south face; boarded door in arch, west. A segmental-arched 3-light panel-tracery window to nave; blank west bay opposite tower-porch. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4031765115