St Oswald's Chambers
St Oswald's Chambers is a commercial building located at 20-22 St Werburgh Street in Chester , Cheshire , England. It is a Listed Building in Grade II .
history
The building was erected in 1898. It was designed by the local architect John Douglas . In the mid-1890s, St Werburgh Street expanded, and Douglas planned a group of houses consisting of shops and a bank on the east side of the street. These had the house numbers 2-18 and were built between 1895 and 1897. The widening of the street had exposed Chester Cathedral from Eastgate Street, but behind the houses numbered 2-18 were the buildings that were part of the business of the seed merchant and gardener Dickson. Douglas bought the property north of the group of houses he built and designed St Oswald's Chambers so that the house was in line with the group of houses and redesigned it in a similar style to expand the view of the cathedral.
architecture
St Oswald's Chambers consists of two floors and a wing at the rear. The upper floor is designed entirely as a half-timbered construction, most of the ground floor consists of red sandstone - but red bricks from Ruabon were used in the wing construction. The roof is covered with green slate from Westmorland . The front of the building faces St Werburgh Street and faces west. A canted corner leads over to the south side, which is in a side street. In the center of the front is an archway , where the year of construction is engraved in the spandrels of the arch. Above it is a sandstone slab with the name of the building on it. To the left of the door is a window with a mullion and skylights , and to the right is a large shop window . In the sloping corner of the house is a door that leads into the shop. The upper floor has two casement windows to the left of the archway and directly above - the left has four fields, the right has three. In addition there are two dormer windows with pediments without windows, a richly provided with carvings Verge have. At the sloping corner, above the shop, there is a window ensemble consisting of a total of nine sashes, three of which face the respective street or are located directly above the sloping corner. Above it sits a short octagonal spire, which is closed off by a finial with a weather vane . On the south side there is a double-winged window on the ground floor - there are three wings on the upper floor. On the north side, the window arrangement consists of a three-winged and three four-winged window on each floor. The rear wing has two casement windows on each floor. Three brick chimneys rise from the roof.
supporting documents
- ^ A b Images of England: St Oswald's Chambers, 20-22 St Werburgh Street, Chester ( English ) English Heritage . Retrieved March 25, 2010.
- ^ Edward Hubbard : The Work of John Douglas ( English ). The Victorian Society , London 1991, ISBN 0-901657-16-6 , p. 192.
Coordinates: 53 ° 11 '29 " N , 2 ° 53' 24" W.