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Building of the palace began before 1745, and it was completed in 1751. It was built for Samuel Peploe, Bishop of Chester.The palace was substantially expanded in the 18th century, and altered again in the 19th century but, apart from the main door, its external appearance has been virtually unchanged since the 18th century.
The Bishop of Chester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chester in the Province of York.. The diocese extends across most of the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, including the Wirral Peninsula and has its see in the City of Chester where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was formerly the Benedictine Abbey of Saint ...
Nigel of Cotentin (fl.c. 1071/80), from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, of Halton Castle in Cheshire (situated on the River Mersey, 13 miles (21 km) north-east of Chester Castle), is believed to have been the first Constable of Chester and was the 1st Baron of Halton, one of the feudal baronies of the County Palatine of Chester established by Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester. [2]
Arms: Sable three horses' heads couped Argent. [1]George Lloyd (1560– 1 August 1615) [2] was born in Wales, and became Bishop of Sodor and Man, then Bishop of Chester.He is remembered for Bishop Lloyd's House in Chester, which he had built in the years before his death, and which is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
4 Park Street, one of Chester's many Grade-II-listed Black-and-white Revival buildings Chester is a city in Cheshire, England containing over 650 structures that are designated as listed buildings by English Heritage and included in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, over 500 are listed at Grade II, the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and applied to ...
During the Civil War Chester was held by the Royalists. [1] The castle was assaulted by Parliamentary forces in July 1643, and in January and April 1645. [6] Together with the rest of the city, it was besieged between September 1645 and February 1646. [1] Following the civil war the castle was used as a prison, a court and a tax office. [3]
His sermons on the dangers of popery also brought him wider attention, and in 1717 he was nominated as the warden of Manchester collegiate church; however, Francis Gastrell, as Bishop of Chester, refused to sanction the appointment on the basis that Peploe's Lambeth degree of Bachelor of Divinity was not a valid qualification.
Mark Simon Austin Tanner (born November 1970) is a British Anglican bishop and academic. Since 2020, he has been the Bishop of Chester; he previously served as Bishop of Berwick, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Newcastle since his 2016 consecration as bishop; and from August 2011 until his consecration, he was the Warden of Cranmer Hall, Durham, a Church of England theological college.