An ancient parish church, originally serving parts of Hoole and the city of
Chester. It included the chapel of
Chester: St. Barnabas.
The district was affected by the following boundary changes:
1843 — reduced when the part of the township of Hoole was transferred to Chester: Christ Church.
1846 July 10 — reduced when part of the parish within the city of Chester,
and part of the township of Great Boughton, were transferred to the
consolidated chapelry of Chester: St. Paul.
1879 August 22 — reduced when the following area was transferred to Chester: St. Paul:
"All that portion of the parish of Saint John the Baptist Chester in the city
county and diocese aforesaid wherein the present incumbent of such parish now
possesses the exclusive cure of souls which is bounded on the north by the
district chapelry of All Saints Hoole in the said county of Chester and in the
diocese aforesaid on the east and on the south by the new parish of Saint Paul
Chester aforesaid and on the remaining side that is to say on the west by an
imaginary line commencing upon the boundary which divides the said new parish
of Saint Paul Chester from the parish of Saint John the Baptist Chester
aforesaid at the middle of the southern end of the bridge which carries
Hoole-lane over the Shropshire Union Canal at Hoole-lane Lock and
extending thence first northward and then eastward along the middle of the
said lane for a distance of two and a quarter chains or thereabouts to its
junction with the road which leads past the houses called or known as Station
View to New Peploe-street and extending thence northward along the middle of
the said road for a distance of twelve chains or thereabouts (thereby passing
to the west.of the houses called or known as Station View aforesaid and
crossing over the line of the London and North Western Railway) to the
boundary at the culvert whereby the stream called or known as Flooker's Brook
passes under the same road which boundary divides the said parish of Saint
John the Baptist Chester from the district chapelry of All Saints Hoole
aforesaid)"
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