Monument record 10061 - Cestrian Brewery, Foregate Street

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1872-1875, Metric Ten Foot Scale Town Plan of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH6780.

A small brewery, named the Cestrian Brewery on 19th century maps, was recorded to the rear of properties on Foregate Street. It had been demolished by the mid 1960s.

<2> Oxford Archaeology North, 2022, 83-89 Foregate Street, Chester: Archaeological Fieldwork Report, R4653 (Client Report). SCH9324.

Archaeological recording undertaken in 2021-2022 during groundworks as part of the construction of a new build retail store, recorded the angle of a wall to the rear of 83 Foregate Street. Wall 124, located in Row H of the groundworks, coincides with the northern extent of the Cestrian Brewery as depicted on historic mapping.