Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ3865 HOUGH GREEN
1932-1/7/179 (South side)
17/02/94 Church of St Mark

GV II

Parish church. 1892. By TM Lockwood. Ruabon red brick with
graded Westmorland green slate roof; simply expressed.
PLAN: nave, north porch, north-east vestry, apsidal chancel,
apsidal south chapel, ridge bellcote.
EXTERIOR: the west end has triple lancets under a relieving
arch between stepped buttresses. The west bay of the north
side has a lancet; gabled north porch, timber-framed on high
brick plinth, with shaped plaster panels, oak-boarded double
doors in opening with lintel inscribed "HOLINESS BECOMETH
THINE HOUSE"; the 3 eastern bays of the nave have stepped
buttresses and alternately single and dual lancets. The
cross-gabled vestry has basket-arched boarded door in west
side and 2 lancets to north. The chancel apse has a
stone-dressed cusped lancet in each oblique face and paired
lancets in east face. The south chapel has a cusped lancet in
each side of apse. An outshut, south, has a pair of brick
lancets; the gable behind has triple stone-dressed lancets;
steeple-bell-cote on nave ridge has tapered slated sides, a
tier of small shaped panels, 3-tier louvres and an octagonal
belled steeple with weathercock. The nave roof has 3 gabled
louvred lucarnes to each side. Foundation stone on north wall
of nave inscribed "THIS STONE WAS LAID BY THE COUNTESS
GROSVENOR AUGUST 6 1892."
INTERIOR: the nave has boarded floor, brick dado to plastered
walls, 4 hammer-beam trusses and exposed purlins and rafters;
font on polished colonnettes; original pews. The chancel is
more richly furnished; glass by Tower.

Listing NGR: SJ3894165049

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Mark's Church, Saltney at Wikipedia
• St Mark's Church, Saltney official website
• Wikidata Q7594158

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)