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Latitude: 53.1829 / 53°10'58"N
Longitude: -2.89 / 2°53'24"W
OS Eastings: 340619
OS Northings: 365463
OS Grid: SJ406654
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.3DHW
Mapcode Global: WH88F.L807
Plus Code: 9C5V54M5+5X
Entry Name: Rectory, Hall and Buildings of St Marys Church, Handbridge
Listing Date: 10 January 1972
Last Amended: 23 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375896
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469875
ID on this website: 101375896
Location: Handbridge, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH4
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Handbridge Park
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St Mary without the Walls
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Clergy house
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4065 OVERLEIGH ROAD
1932-1/8/205 (North West side)
10/01/72 Rectory, hall and buildings of St
Mary's Church, Handbridge
(Formerly Listed as:
OVERLEIGH ROAD
The Rectory)
GV II
Substantial parsonage house and dependant buildings. c1890. By
Grayson and Ould, probably at expense of the Duke of
Westminster. Red brick, pargeting, brown clay tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and roof attic, double fronted, with
former hall and service wing, right. Complex oak-panelled door
in brick pilaster case with large shell hood on ornate
brackets; double-transomed small-pane casement to each side;
projecting wings have irregular window-patterns; a secondary
door right. Moulded brick first-floor string course; a
mullioned and transomed 5-light small-pane oriel above
entrance; pargeted gablet; corbelled corner pilasters and a
4-light mullioned and transomed casement to each wing, in
frames proud of wall surface; pargeted front gable to each
wing, with bull's-eye window in brick surround; roof sweeps
down to eaves of central bay; a roof dormer of two 6-pane
lights under a pargeted gable. Shaped red-brick chimneys. The
left side, with projecting chimney, is relatively simple. The
rear has double oak doors with fanlight under basket arch, a
large 2-storey canted 5-light bay window to each side and a
nearly flush 12-pane sash above the doorway.
The projecting secondary right wing, with former church hall,
has a round-arched oak door, left; front gable, shaped, with 3
camber-arched sashes and a bull's-eye.
INTERIOR not inspected.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-: 174; Ordnance Survey : 1:2500: Plan
38/15, 2nd Edition, Cheshire: 1897-1898).
Listing NGR: SJ4061965463
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