Building record 15530 - Wall, railings and gates to St Mary's Churchyard, Handbridge

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1375849 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Wall, railings and gates to St Mary's Handbridge churchyard and end of adjoining drive to Rectory, Overleigh Road. Grade II Listed. Built in 1887 by FB Wade at expense of the first Duke of Westminster. Rock-faced sandstone and wrought-iron. Battered wall approx 1m high with hollow-chamfered copings and gabled bay-piers with niches; cross-gabled gate piers to 3 gateways to church and one to Rectory. Wrought-iron railings on walls with "barleysugar" bars, ornamental quatrefoil panels with double ribs, those at top with foliar scrollwork. Ornate wrought-iron gates, 2 pedestrian and one for carriages to churchyard and one for carriages to Rectory drive.

<2> Peter de Figueiredo (Independent Consultant), 2015, Church of St Mary-Without-The-Walls, Handbridge, Chester: Heritage Statement, R4570 (Client Report). SCH9169.

The front boundary wall to Overleigh Road is contemporary with the church. The wall, also designed by F.B.Wade, is of rock-faced sandstone and the gates are of wrought iron. The low wall encloses the front edge of the churchyard, a formal area of grass and planted borders with tarmac paths that surrounds the church on all four sides. The north wall separating the churchyard from the car park, and the west wall, which runs at the rear of the properties on Greenway Street are of red brick, and there is a hedge along the driveway leading to the rectory and the car park.