Welsh Presbyterian Church and Forecourt Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1974. Church.

Welsh Presbyterian Church and Forecourt Wall and Railings

WRENN ID
grey-footing-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1974
Type
Church
Address
Welsh Presbyterian Church and Forecourt Wall and Railings, St John Street
OS grid reference
SJ 407 662
Coordinates
53.19029, -2.88759
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Welsh Presbyterian Church, built in 1866 by architects W and G Audsley from Liverpool, features a simple rectangular plan with a full-width east apse and a narrower one-storey narthex to the west. The church is constructed from tooled coursed yellow sandstone at the front, with brick sides and rear.

The narthex is notable for its octagonal corner piers and two polished granite columns, supporting three pointed arches at the front, which include a central false gable and arches on either side. It has two boarded doors with ornate wrought-iron hinges, a quatrefoil parapet, two corbel heads, and dragon gargoyles. Each side of the narthex has a lancet window, and stepped buttresses are present at the corners. A large rose window with colonnette spokes is set in a recessed panel, flanked by colonnette on each jamb, with a lancet window near the gable apex topped by a cruciform finial.

The sides of the church feature an unpierced stone west bay, followed by brickwork adorned with red and blue brick bands, and five 2-light windows with plate tracery. Similar windows are found in the oblique faces of the apse, along with an octafoil window on the east face. The roof is made of green and purple banded slate.

The paved forecourt includes a stone wall with three simple wrought-iron gates and four panels of wrought-iron railings. The interior was not inspected.

Local climate

Welsh Presbyterian Church and Forecourt Wall and Railings 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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