Recorders Steps is a Grade I listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. A Victorian Steps, monument.
Recorders Steps
- WRENN ID
- woven-remnant-wren
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1955
- Type
- Steps, monument
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4065NE CITY WALLS 595-1/6/124 Recorders Steps 28/07/55 (Formerly Listed as: City Walls & Towers incl. foundations of SE angle Roman Fortress wall & tower)
GV I
Stone steps in 2 offset flights of 12 and 15 steps, from the City Walls to the Groves. 1820-22. For Chester Corporation. The lower flight is separated from the wall by a strip of Gothick stonework. A plaque probably 1881, set into the wall, erroneously dated, is inscribed RECORDER'S STEPS Erected by the Corporation of this City A.D.1700 for the Convenience of ROGER COMBERBACH, Recorder. A boarded door in probably late C19 ashlar archway through the wall near the drum tower (qv), west, is inscribed EDGAR HOUSE. (Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 149).
Listing NGR: SJ4077065921
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