CHESTER: St. Mary without the Walls (Church of England)
Overleigh Road, Handbridge.
Church History
Built in 1887 as a replacement church for
Chester: St. Mary on the Hill,
serving part of the city of Chester and part of the township of Marlston cum
Lache.
The district was affected by the following boundary changes:
1887 September 27 — reduced when the following area was transferred to Chester: St. Olave:
"That portion of the parish of Saint Mary-on-the-Hill which is situate on the
north side of the River Dee and on the east side of Bridge-street aforesaid".
1887 September 27 — reduced when the following area was transferred to Chester: St. Bridget:
"All that portion of the said parish of Saint Mary-on-the-Hill which is
bounded on the south by the River Dee on the east by the centre of Lower
Bridge-street in the city of Chester from the south boundary of the said
parish to a point where Duke-street in the same city debouches into Lower
Bridge-street aforesaid, and thence partly by the said parish of Saint Olave
partly by the said parish of Saint Michael and partly by a detached portion of
the parish of Saint Bridget on the north partly by the said parish of Saint
Michael partly by the said parish of Saint Bridget and partly by the said
parish of Saint Martin and on the east by the said parish of Holy Trinity. And
also all that detached portion of the said parish of Saint Mary-on-the-Hill
abutting upon Lower Bridge-street aforesaid at the northerly end thereof
bounded on the south- east and north sides thereof by the said parish of Saint
Michael and on the west side by a detached portion of the said parish of Saint
Bridget"
1887 September 27 — enlarged when the following area was transferred from Chester: St. Bridget:
"Part of the said parish of Saint Bridget situate on the south side of the
said river in the city of Chester... bounded on the north and east sides
thereof by the parish of Saint John the Baptist in the city of Chester along
the course of the said River Dee and on the south and west sides thereof by
the said parish of Saint Mary-on-the-Hill."
1923 October 12 — reduced when the following area was transfererd to
Lache cum Saltney: St. Mark:
"All that portion of the Parish of Saint Mary on the Hill, Chester, in the
said County of Chester and in the said Diocese of Chester, which is bounded
upon the west and upon the south west by the said New Parish of Lache cum
Saltney, and upon the remaining sides, that is to say, upon the south east,
upon the east and upon the north west, by an imaginary line commencing at the
point where the boundary which divides the said New Parish of Lache cum
Saltney from the said Parish of Saint Mary on the Hill, Chester, crosses the
fence which forms the south eastern boundary of the close numbered 80d upon
the Ordnance Survey Map of the Civil Parish of Chester published in the year
1911 on the scale of 25 inches to a mile and also upon the map or plan annexed
to this Scheme or Representation, and extending thence north eastward along
the said fence and along the fence forming the south eastern boundary of the
close numbered 80 upon the said maps for a distance in all of 8½ chains or thereabouts to the point where the last
mentioned fence meets the fence forming the north eastern boundary of the said
close numbered 80, and extending thence north westward along the last
mentioned fence and along the fence forming the north eastern boundary of the
close numbered 100 upon the said map for a distance in all of 22½ chains or thereabouts to the point where the last
mentioned fence meets the fence at the eastern end of the roadway which runs
along the backs of the houses and premises situate on the southern side of the
road called Hough Green, and extending thence northward along the last
mentioned fence and along the fence forming the eastern boundary of the house
and premises known as Heath-field, Number 23, Hough Green, for a distance in
all of 5¼ chains or thereabouts to the point where
the last mentioned fence meets the southern side of Hough Green, and
extending thence first northward to and then eastward along the middle of
Hough Green for a distance in all of 12 chains or thereabouts to its junction
with Selkirk Road, and extending thence northward along the middle of Selkirk
Road for a distance of 4 chains or thereabouts to its present northern end,
and continuing thence northward in precisely the same direction and in a
straight line for a distance of 26 chains or thereabouts to a point in the
middle of the Chester and Holyhead Line of the London, Midland and Scottish
Railway, and extending thence south westward along the middle of the
said line of railway for a distance of 20½ chains or
thereabouts to the boundary which divides the said Parish of Saint Mary on the
Hill, Chester, from the said New Parish of Lache cum Saltney."
Church Records
C = Christenings (Baptisms) ; M = Marriages ; B = Burials ; BTs = Bishop's Transcripts
Original Registers
C 1887–1984 ; M 1887–1987 — Cheshire Record Office (P 20)
C from 1984 ; M from 1987 ; B from 1963 — Church
