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Chester Cathedral has an east–west axis, common to many cathedrals, with the chancel at the eastern end, and the façade to the west. The plan is cruciform , with a central tower (as is usual in English monastic churches), but is asymmetrical, having a small transept on the north side remaining from an earlier building, and an unusually large ...
St John the Baptist's Church is the former cathedral of Chester, Cheshire, England during the Early Middle Ages.The church, which was first founded in the late 7th Century by the Anglo Saxons, is outside Chester's city walls on a cliff above the north bank of the River Dee. [1]
Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the England-Wales border.With a built-up area population of 92,760 in 2021, [1] it is the most populous settlement of Cheshire West and Chester (which had a population of 357,150 in 2021). [5]
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Chester Cathedral Library; Chester War Memorial; O. Organ and organists of Chester Cathedral This page was last edited on 7 January 2024, at 14:26 (UTC). Text is ...
The Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield was of enormous extent, and it was probably found convenient to have something analogous to a cathedral at Chester, even though the cathedra itself were elsewhere; accordingly the church of St John ranked as a cathedral for a considerable time, and had its own dean and chapter of secular canons down to the ...
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1899 Ordnance Survey map of N.E. Chester showing Newtown. The Cathedral grounds of St. Werburgh can be seen to bottom left of the map. The Phoenix Tower (The King Charles Tower) forms part of the Roman Walls of Chester. Newtown is an area of north-east Chester, just outside the city walls and to the east of Chester Cathedral and the Phoenix Tower.