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Latitude: 53.2109 / 53°12'39"N
Longitude: -2.9005 / 2°54'1"W
OS Eastings: 339956
OS Northings: 368580
OS Grid: SJ399685
Mapcode National: GBR 79.1PY9
Mapcode Global: WH887.FK1B
Plus Code: 9C5V636X+9Q
Entry Name: Church at Countess of Chester Hospital 200 Metres South West of 1829 Block
Listing Date: 14 November 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376818
English Heritage Legacy ID: 468947
ID on this website: 101376818
Location: Abbot's Mead, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH2
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Civil Parish: Upton-by-Chester
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Upton The Holy Ascension
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Church building Chapel Gothic Revival
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UPTON BY CHESTER
LIVERPOOL ROAD
(West side)
Church at Countess of Chester Hospital 200m SW of 1829 block
II
Church. 1856. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and steep pitched roof with octagonal slates. Early English style. Plinth, small buttresses, moulded eaves, coped gables. Chancel, vestries, nave with bellcote, porches. Openings are sharply pointed, with hood moulds. Windows are mainly single lancets with deeply splayed reveals. Chancel, single bay, has angle buttresses and a 3-light east window. Towards the east end, a single lancet on each side. Vestries have rebuilt square gable stacks. To east, a quatrefoil window, to north and south, a door. Nave, 6 bays, has buttressed gabled porches to north and south. West end has a slightly projecting centre with sill band, containing a tall window, 2 lights. Above this, a gabled bellcote with blocked openings, and containing a clock. On either side, a single lancet. Interior, rendered and painted, has pointed arched openings with hood moulds. Chancel has moulded arch, flanked to left by a door and to right by a small organ case. Plain matchboard ceiling with cornice. East window has stained glass dated 1885. Nave has common rafter roof with intersecting arch braces and king post. At the west end, a tall recess containing a large traceried panelled wooden cabinet with attached bench. The cabinet contains a clock mechanism dated 1856, by Joyce of Whitchurch. At the top of the cabinet is a small clock dial. Fittings include an octagonal wooden pulpit, possibly original, altered mid C20. Other fittings mid C20.
Listing NGR: SJ3995668580
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