Church of St Phillip is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1985. Church.
Church of St Phillip
- WRENN ID
- iron-gallery-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Phillip, Chester Road, Kelsall
- OS grid reference
- SJ 525 681
- Coordinates
- 53.20811, -2.71144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Phillip, built in 1860 by T Bower of Nantwich, is a Grade II listed building located on the north side of Chester Road in Kelsall. Constructed from rockfaced buff sandstone, it features a Welsh slate roof with a red tile ridge and is designed in the Decorated style. The church consists of a 4-bay nave, a 2-bay chancel, a south porch, a vestry, and a sanctus bellcote.
The gabled south porch has a heavy, two-centred arched entrance supported by stout shafts with undressed capitals. Behind this entrance is a similar doorcase on pairs of shafts that contains a pair of doors adorned with ornate hinges. The bays of the nave and chancel are divided by buttresses; the nave is fitted with 2-light windows that feature alternate quatrefoil and trefoil plate tracery, while the chancel has pairs of lancets with trefoil heads. The east window is a 3-light design with sexfoils and a quatrefoil, complete with a label mould that has plain rectangular stops. A similar 4-light west window can also be found. On the north side, the vestry has a hexagonal end topped with a pyramidal roof.
Inside, the church is tall and plain, finished in ashlar. The chancel arch is ovolo-moulded and rebated, with the outer part resting on shafts that extend to the floor, while the inner part is supported by a stout shaft that springs from a corbel at mid-height, both featuring undressed capitals. The plain font is quatrefoil in section and stands on four short shafts.
Local climate
Church of St Phillip 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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