Where is St John's Rectory, Chester?

St John's Rectory, Chester is in North Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 53.1900°, -2.8853°.

Gardens · North Wales

St John's Rectory, Chester

St John's Rectory, Chester — a garden in wales-north, United Kingdom.

Detail of 3 Vicars Lane, Chester - geograph.org.uk - 6657756 — Stephen Richards — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)

Dog-friendly

St John's Rectory, Chester is a garden of interest in wales-north, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

St John's Rectory is at 3 Vicar's Lane, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

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Background

History

This was originally built in about 1750 as the rectory for St John's Church, which stands on the other side of Vicar's Lane. It continued to have this function until 1957. It was then used by the Grosvenor Club, following which it contains offices.

Architecture

The rectory is constructed in brick with stone dressings, and it has a grey slate roof. It stands on a painted stone plinth, and at the corners are rusticated quoins. It has three storeys and its front is symmetrical in five bays. Between the ground and first floors are stone bands. Above the top floor windows is a modillion cornice, and a coped brick parapet. The entrance door in the central bay has a Gibbs surround with a pulvinated frieze and a pediment. In the other bays on the ground floor and all the bays in the middle floor contain twelve-pane sash windows, and in the top floor the sash windows have nine panes. All the windows have rusticated wedge lintels with projecting keystones.…

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