Church Of St Mark

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ3865 HOUGH GREEN 1932-1/7/179 (South side) 17/02/94 Church of St Mark

GV II

Parish church. 1892. By TM Lockwood. Ruabon red brick with graded Westmorland green slate roof; simply expressed. PLAN: nave, north porch, north-east vestry, apsidal chancel, apsidal south chapel, ridge bellcote. EXTERIOR: the west end has triple lancets under a relieving arch between stepped buttresses. The west bay of the north side has a lancet; gabled north porch, timber-framed on high brick plinth, with shaped plaster panels, oak-boarded double doors in opening with lintel inscribed "HOLINESS BECOMETH THINE HOUSE"; the 3 eastern bays of the nave have stepped buttresses and alternately single and dual lancets. The cross-gabled vestry has basket-arched boarded door in west side and 2 lancets to north. The chancel apse has a stone-dressed cusped lancet in each oblique face and paired lancets in east face. The south chapel has a cusped lancet in each side of apse. An outshut, south, has a pair of brick lancets; the gable behind has triple stone-dressed lancets; steeple-bell-cote on nave ridge has tapered slated sides, a tier of small shaped panels, 3-tier louvres and an octagonal belled steeple with weathercock. The nave roof has 3 gabled louvred lucarnes to each side. Foundation stone on north wall of nave inscribed "THIS STONE WAS LAID BY THE COUNTESS GROSVENOR AUGUST 6 1892." INTERIOR: the nave has boarded floor, brick dado to plastered walls, 4 hammer-beam trusses and exposed purlins and rafters; font on polished colonnettes; original pews. The chancel is more richly furnished; glass by Tower.

Listing NGR: SJ3894165049