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List entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION

List entry Number: 1229986

Location

CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION, CHURCH LANE

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County	District	District Type	Parish
	Cheshire West and Chester	Unitary Authority	Upton-by-Chester

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II

Date first listed: 01-Jun-1967

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Legacy System Information

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 404827

Asset Groupings

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List entry Description

Summary of Building

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Reasons for Designation

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History

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Details

SJ 46 NW UPTON-BY-CHESTER C.P. CHURCH LANE (East Side)

5/39 Church of the Holy Ascension. 1/6/1967

- II

Church: 1852-4 by James Harrison, transepts of 1958 and 1967 by A C Bennett (Pevsner and Hubbard). Red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Red tile roof. 5-bay nave, 2-bay chancels hidden by transepts, 3-stage towers and spire and south porch. Coped gabled porch has hood mould over the entrance. Nave windows of 2-lights with quatrefoil tracery. Tall coped transepts have pairs of 3-light windows with intersecting tracery. 3-light east window with quatrefoils. Tower has a plinth, diagonal buttresses, bands at each floor and a solid parapet. 2-light windows, louvred in top stage. Stone spire with 2 bands and simple slight lucarnes. Interior: Nave has arch-braced roof trusses sprung from carved head corbels. Chamfered 4-centred chancel arch and chancel with wagon roof. Pair of depressed 4-centred arches to added transepts. Stained glass by Kempe 1870-1880. Iron plaque inside porch records grant of seats by the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building and Repairing of Churches and Chapels in England and Wales.

Listing NGR: SJ4080869110

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National Grid Reference: SJ 40808 69110

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