Building record 15719 - Christ Church and Churchyard Railings, Weston Point

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 486911 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Church and churchyard railing. 1841, by Edmund Sharpe of Lancaster for the Weaver Navigation Trustees. Chapel of ease to the church at Weston. Tooled ashlar, with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with coped gables. Early English style. Plinth and buttresses throughout. Cruciform plan, with chancel, transepts, nave, south porch, and west tower with spire. Windows are pointed arched, with hood moulds and mainly simple tracery. Chancel, single bay, has angle buttresses. Traceried east window, three lights, with shafts. Above it, a cusped trefoil. Transepts, single bay, have angle buttresses. Gables have three-light windows with trefoils above. East and west sides have single two-light windows. Nave, four bays, has two-light windows separated by buttresses. Gabled south porch has chamfered and moulded pointed arched doorway with hood mould, under a coped gable. Door blocked. Single lancets in each side, also blocked. West tower, three stages, has gabled angle buttresses. String courses to each stage. Lower stage has blind trefoils to north and south, with segment headed door to north. To west, a pair of single lights, blocked. Middle stage has trefoil to south, and single-light windows to north and south. Bell stage has two-light pointed arched bell openings on each side, that to south with inserted clock. Octagonal broach spire has three tiers of gabled lucarnes, finial and cross.

INTERIOR: Not accessible at time of survey. East window has flanking blind arcades, all under linked hoodmould. Nave and chancel have chamfered and moulded arches, that to the nave with hood mould and impost band. Nave and transepts have strutted kingpost roofs, intersecting at the crossing. South transept has organ and screen forming vestry. Some original seating in north transept.

OUTSIDE: rectangular plot with chamfered corners, enclosed by a spiked wrought iron railing with curved supports. Pair of matching gates on south side.

<2> Hartwell C, Hyde M, Hubbard E & Pevsner N, 2011, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (2011 revision), p.665 (Book). SCH7059.

Built in 1841 by Edmund Sharpe and commissioned by the Trustees of the Weaver Navigation for the use of the watermen. Thin west tower with spire which was rebuilt in 1899.