Listed Building: WELSH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS (1375923)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4066 ST JOHN STREET 1932-1/6/251 (East side) 26/03/74 Welsh Presbyterian Church and forecourt wall and railings (Formerly Listed as: ST JOHN STREET Welsh Congregational Church) II Church. 1866. By W and G Audsley of Liverpool. Tooled coursed yellow sandstone front; brick sides and rear. PLAN: a simple rectangle plus full-width east apse and, narrower, a one-storey narthex, west. EXTERIOR: the narthex has octagonal corner piers, 2 intermediate columns of polished granite, 3 pointed arches to front with central false gable, an arch to each side; 2 boarded doors on ornate wrought-iron hinges, quatrefoil parapet, 2 corbel heads and dragon gargoyles; a lancet to each side of narthex; stepped buttresses at corners. A large rose window with colonnette spokes in a recessed panel with colonnette on each jamb; a lancet near gable apex; cruciform finial. The sides have unpierced west bay of stone, then brickwork with red and blue brick bands and five 2-light windows with plate tracery; a similar window in each oblique face of the apse and an octafoil in the east face. Green and purple banded slate roof. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the paved forecourt has stone wall with 3 simple wrought-iron gates and 4 panels with wrought-iron railings. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Harmondsworth: 1971-: 153-4). Listing NGR: SJ4079266277