St Andrews United Reform Church

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE NEWGATE STREET 595-1/4/265 (West side (off)) Church of St Andrew

GV II

Presbyterian Church of England, now United Reformed church. 1860, by JW and J Hay and 1884 by Kelly and Edwards. Ashlar yellow sandstone and English garden wall bond brown brick, partly rendered; purple-grey slate roofs. EXTERIOR: the stone-fronted entrance is offset south of the body of the church, which has reversed liturgical orientation. The entrance front is in C13 style. Double plinth; double boarded doors on ornate hinges in archway with colonnettes; foliar capitals; ballflowers; lancet left of entrance; twin 2-light windows above entrance have trefoil and quatrefoil tracery; quatrefoil window in gable; octagonal belfry with stone spire, left; pinnacle right. The sides of the entrance and the body of the church are brick, slate-roofed. The sides of the church are simply expressed, that to north having 5 triple lancets. The liturgical west end has 5 lancets, the central one taller than the others; the liturgical east end has a rose window with stone tracery, of 1860; the body of the church was rebuilt in 1884. INTERIOR: 5 bays. Cast-iron columns carry arch-braced trusses; each bay has triple clerestory lancets above aisles with lean-to roofs. The rose window has patterned stained glass. Original pews, organ and Lord's Table. Screens to liturgical south-east and north-east corners. (Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 141; Simpson F: Manuscripts - Churches and Chapels of Chester).

Listing NGR: SJ4067566151