Hoole Community Centre, Westminster Road, Chester
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Hoole Community Centre, Westminster Road, Chester
Image: © BrianPritchard Taken: 24 Jan 2008
Hoole Community Centre, was built as The Westminster Road School in 1865. The land was purchased by the Duke of Westminster from Thomas Faulkner. Above the front gable of the schoolroom fronting the road was a steeple which was in similar height to the building itself. The School was built by John Douglas, a famous Cheshire architect. It has been discovered to be one of the first twelve of his executed commissions out of over 650 dated between 1860 and 1911, the extension to All Saints Parish Church being one of the last
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Image Location
Latitude
53.197683
Longitude
-2.873401