Christ Church, Chester
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| Christ Church, Chester | |
  Position of the church in Cheshire
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| Basic information | |
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| Location | Chester, Cheshire, England |
| Geographic coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Religious affiliation | Anglican |
| Province | Province of York |
| District | Diocese of Chester |
| Architectural description | |
| Architect(s) | John Douglas |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1876 |
| Year completed | 1900 |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Sandstone and red brick, grey-green slate roofs |
Christ Church, Chester is Somerset Street, Chester, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ407670). It is a Grade II listed building[1] and continues to be an active Anglican church.[2]
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[edit] History
The church was built in separate stages between 1876 and 1900 to designs by the architect John Douglas. A southwest steeple was planned but it was never built.[3]
[edit] Structure
The chancel and the southeast chapel are built of sandstone ashlar and the rest of the church is built in red brick with stone dressings. The roofs are of grey-green slates. The style is Gothic Revival.[1][3] The plan of the church consists of a five-bay nave with clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel, a baptistry, a southeast chapel, vestries and a south porch. Over the porch is a cantilevered timber-framed hip-roofed bellcote. The gables have crosses as finials and the nave roof has five blocked lucarnes on each slope.[1]
[edit] Fittings and furnishings
The chancel fittings and reredos dated between 1900 and 1910, and the rood beam dated 1920, are by Sir Charles Nicholson. Charles Eamer Kempe was the designer of the reredos in the chapel (dated 1897) and of the stained glass in the windows of the chapel (dated 1897), the south aisle (dated 1901) and the west window (dated 1902). The stained glass in the baptistry dated 1906 is by A. K. Nicholson and that in the west north aisle window, also dated 1906, is by Herbert Bryams. The organ case is painted in Pre-Raphaelite manner.[1] In the church is a painting depicting Christ prepared for the Entombment by Westall which is dated 1826 and which was formerly in St Mary's Church, Eccleston. The communion plate includes a credence paten dated 1725, two chalices by William Bateman dated 1821 and two patens dated 1838.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d Images of England: Christ Church, Chester. English Heritage. Retrieved on 2008-03-13.
- ^ Christ Church, Chester. Diocese of Chester. Retrieved on 2008-03-14.
- ^ a b c Pevsner, Nikolaus; Edward Hubbard [1971] (2003). The Buildings of England: Cheshire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 150–151. ISBN 0 300 09588 0.
