Listed Building: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (1375853)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4167 HOOLE ROAD 1932-1/9/174 (South side) Church of All Saints GV II Parish church. 1867 by Samuel Dawkes; vestry 1911; south aisle 1912 by John Douglas and F Walley; reordering of interior furnishing late C20 by Graham Holland. Rock-faced coursed red sandstone; grey-green slates. PLAN: separate roofs to 5-bay nave and aisles; south-west tower with broach spire; flat-roofed south-east vestry; chancel; gabled north porch; plate tracery. EXTERIOR: the west end has 2-light window to north aisle; west doorway converted to window late C20; 3-stage tower, stair turret at north-west corner; cusped lancets to first and second stages; stone spire with 3 tiers of lucarnes; south side of tower contains south porch archway with boarded doors in cusped archway with foliar ornament; cusped lancets to second stage; all faces of third stage have paired bell-openings; bays of south aisle have alternating single and paired 2-light windows; vestry in C16 manner, with small east extension of stone-dressed brick; a 2-light window to east bay of chancel; east window of 2;1;2 lights; 1-light window to east bay of chancel; 2-light east window to organ-chamber; a 2-light window in each bay of north aisle; north porch, second bay from west has tracery-panelled doors in archway with bell-capital shafts; a trefoil above; diminishing buttresses; simple eaves to roofs; coped gables with cross finials. INTERIOR: circular columns with bell capitals; stone-dressed plastered walls; arch-braced collar trusses to nave; wagon roof to chancel; pews sensitively reordered, those in aisles angled to face altar; tiled floor to altar; reredos with Commandments; oak pulpit. East window 1878, scenes from life of Christ; east window in north aisle David and Jonathon in memory of Robert Cecil Morrison killed in action 1916 on the Somme; east window in south aisle in memory of Frederick Anderson, curate-in-charge 1868-71 and Vicar 1871-1907, by W Lawson 1924; in east bay of chancel, north, in memory of MW Lean headmaster of All Saints School, 1929; in cast bay of chancel, south, in memory of TA Wise, Vicar 1930-44. HISTORICAL NOTE: the land, spire and bells for the church were donated by Mrs Hamilton, widow of a major landowner in Hoole. Listing NGR: SJ4179867490