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OS grid reference	SJ 526 681
Location	Kelsall, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Philip, Kelsall
History
Status	Parish church
Dedication	Saint Philip
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	8 November 1985
Architect(s)	Thomas Bower
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1860
Specifications
Materials	Sandstone, slate roof
Administration
Parish	St Philip, Kelsall
Deanery	Chester
Archdeaconry	Chester
Diocese	Chester
Province	York

St Philip's Church is in the village of Kelsall, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

History

The church was built in 1860 to a design by Thomas Bower of Nantwich.

Architecture

St Philip's is constructed in sandstone with a roof of Welsh slates and a red tiled ridge. Its architectural style is Decorated. The plan consists of a four-bay nave with a south porch, and a two-bay chancel with a north vestry. A bellcote stands on the east end of the nave. The windows along the sides of the church are divided by buttresses. In the nave the windows have two-lights with alternating quatrefoil and trefoil heads, and contain plate tracery. The chancel windows are pairs of lancets with trefoil heads. The east window has three lights, and the west window four lights. The vestry has a pyramidal roof. The two-manual organ was built in 1900 by Nicholson and Lord.

External features

The churchyard contains the war graves of two soldiers of World War I, and two airmen of World War II.

See also

• Listed buildings in Kelsall