Love Street School (St Werburgh Middle School)

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 LOVE STREET 1932-1/6/190 (East side) 14/12/92 Love Street School (St Werburgh Middle School)

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School. 1909 by H Beswick for Chester City Council. Hard red brick dressed with yellow terracotta; grey slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys south to Union Street, 3 storeys north to Forest Street, plus attic. The south face has 4 pediment-gables; each with two 20-pane hopper windows per storey; flush sillbands; moulded sills; staggered voussoirs to window-heads linked by double floor-bands; gables of banded brick with blank shields and triangular pediments to the 2 central bays, broken pediments to the unequally projecting end bays. Boys' entrance pavilion, left, and girls', right, each of one storey plus attic; round-arched terracotta entrances with banding, pediments and dressings; pedimented gable to attic window. The 3-storey block to Forest Street rises behind, with nicely-placed furnace-chimney expressed as campanile, with timber-framed cantilevered bell-cote. Gable towards Love Street has terracotta apex inscribed "CITY OF CHESTER COUNCIL SCHOOL: AD 1909". The north face to Forest Street has 20-pane hopper windows to ground floor and first floor, and a large round-arched window in front gable-end of each flanking bay. Stair-well expressed on facade; end pavilions. INTERIOR not inspected. The elements of the building are well-composed, providing a good asymmetrical grouping when seen from Vicar's Lane and Love Street. Building vacant at time of survey. (Chester City Council and Committee: Education Committee Minutes: 1908-1910: PASSIM).

Listing NGR: SJ4102066337