Meet @ParsKahve - bringing their own mini Christmas market to the Rows this festive season!
Pop in to discover festive offerings and experience the magic of shopping in these historic galleries 🎄✨
Support local!
#RowvemberChester #ShopLocal #FestiveChester
Life on the Rows! Meet @BeerHeroes - who love the quirky medieval undercroft they operate from and the sense of community on the Rows 🍺✨
Support local this festive season!
#RowvemberChester #ShopLocal #FestiveChester
Life on the Rows! Meet Chester Model Centre - a family-run business who love their front-row seat to Chester's parades and footfall of the Rows 🚂✨
Support local this festive season!
#RowvemberChester #ShopLocal #FestiveChester
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 30: 11 Watergate Street
Grade I with Chester's finest medieval undercroft (c.1300)! The shield reads "The Old Crypt 1180" but it's a century out & not really a crypt. Haunted tales of secret passages? Probably the Roman sewer! Truth as fascinating as legend.
Life on the Rows! Meet @LondonCameraExchange - hear why they love running their business on Chester's iconic medieval galleries 📷✨
This festive season, discover the stories behind the shopfronts and support local!
#RowvemberChester #ShopLocal #FestiveChester
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 29: 53 Lower Bridge Street
Grade II with enclosed medieval timber Row at first floor level. Built to squeeze into a gap next to St Olave Street. Medieval sandstone wall & huge fireplace survive. Is it one building or two merged? This is still debated.
🎶 Pop-Up Performances this December! 🎶
Choirs led by Matt Baker filling the Rows with festive music!
🎄 29 Nov: Uni of Chester Choir
🎄 6 Dec: A Handbag of Harmonies
🎄 13 Dec: Proud Marys
1-2.30pm | FREE
Plus sneaky pop-up at @ChesterChristmasMarket!
#RowvemberChester
As #Rowvember ends, meet the people who keep the Rows thriving!
We chatted with business owners about life in these medieval galleries. This festive season, support the independent shops, cafés & businesses that make the Rows special.
Discover their stories 🎄✨
#RowvemberChester #ChesterRows
✨ Art on the Streets Pop-Up today! ✨
Stand where artists stood! Digital prints of original paintings displayed in the exact locations they were created. Compare past & present views of Chester's Rows.
📅 Sat 29 Nov, 11.15am-12.45pm 👉 buff.ly/keKxu7S
#RowvemberChester
🎶 Pop-Up Performances this December! 🎶
Choirs led by Matt Baker filling the Rows with festive music!
🎄 29 Nov: Uni of Chester Choir
🎄 6 Dec: A Handbag of Harmonies
🎄 13 Dec: Proud Marys
1-2.30pm | FREE
Plus sneaky pop-up at @ChesterChristmasMarket!
#RowvemberChester
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 28: St Michael's Church
Grade II built on Roman fortress southern gateway foundations! Fabric from 14th/15th century onwards. Maybe one of five Chester churches that began among abandoned Roman buildings. From fortress to faith - 2,000 years.
🎨 Art Returns to the Streets! Discover digital prints of historic paintings from Grosvenor Museum displayed in shop windows along the Rows that inspired them.
✨ Special Pop-Up this Sat 29, 11.15am - 12.45pm with volunteer experts 👉 buff.ly/keKxu7S
#RowvemberChester
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 27: 10 Watergate Street
Grade II* with 14th century undercroft & 17th century timber-framing visible at Row level. Upstairs: a massive fireplace with painted plaster overmantel showing Royal arms. Grand domestic features survive above today's shops!
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 26: 6 Northgate Street
Unlisted Georgian brick building from the 1820s-30s replacing an earlier timber-framed building. A bright, attractive example showing Chester's evolution from medieval timber to Georgian elegance while maintaining the Row structure.
🎨 Art Returns to the Streets! Discover digital prints of historic paintings from Grosvenor Museum displayed in shop windows along the Rows that inspired them.
✨ Special Pop-Up this Sat 29, 11.15am - 12.45pm with volunteer experts 👉 buff.ly/keKxu7S
#RowvemberChester
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 25: 61 Bridge Street
Grade II with medieval undercroft hidden behind Nando's fittings! Georgian townhouse (c.1760) above incorporates earlier timbers. At Row level, Chester Model Centre has reused 17th century beams.
#ChesterRows #BridgeStreet #HeritageChester
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 24: 22-24 Eastgate Street
Two Grade II buildings. No. 22's 1852 refurbishment was hailed as 'pioneer' Vernacular Revival - the movement started here! Both contain rare surviving enclosed stalls with walkways between them & Row shops.
Image: @Stuartrobphoto
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 23: 25 Eastgate Street
Grade II built 1861 by TA Richardson for grocers. Carved fruit-and-foliage corbels weren't just decoration - they were Victorian advertising! A precursor to Chester's later Vernacular Revival buildings. A billboard carved in stone!
✨ FREE Family workshop in the city today! ✨
🎨 "The Missing Building" Workshop with artist Neuza Morais - imagining the buildings that could transform our cities.
📍 St Peter's Church, The Cross
📆 Sat 22nd Nov 10.30am - 2.30pm
🎟️ FREE, drop-in!
#RowvemberChester
🍺 Beer (Heroes) and Burrows: A Night of Hangman's Tales
Join author Nick Kevern in Beer Heroes' atmospheric undercroft for chilling tales of Chester's notorious 19th-century hangman Samuel Burrows. Take home a bottle of Samuel Burrows ale 👉 buff.ly/X1J8eTc
#RowvemberChester
✨ FREE Family Fun This Saturday in Chester! ✨
🎨 "Missing Building" Workshop - St Peter's Church (10.30am-2.30pm)
🏺 Roman Medicine Roadshow - Grosvenor Museum (10.30am-4.30pm)
🏛️ Rows Family Tours with Miles the Mason
Book tours 👉 heritagechester.co.uk
#RowvemberChester #GladiatorsOfChester
Step back in time with Miles the Mason this Saturday for a FREE family walking tour revealing how Chester's unique Rows were built by hardworking masons like him.
11am 👉 Sold Out!
2pm 👉 buff.ly/iMaiSOh
Funded by Chester Archaeological Society.
#RowvemberChester #ChesterRows #FamilyFriendly
🍺 Beer (Heroes) and Burrows: A Night of Hangman's Tales 🍺
Join author Nick Kevern in Beer Heroes' atmospheric Rows undercroft as he brings Chester's most notorious 19th-century hangman to life.
📍 Beer Heroes, 26 Watergate St
📆 26 Nov, 7.30-9pm
Book your spot! 👉 buff.ly/X1J8eTc
#RowvemberChester
✨ FREE Family workshop in the city this weekend! ✨
🎨 "The Missing Building" Workshop with artist Neuza Morais - imagining the buildings that could transform our cities.
📍 St Peter's Church, The Cross
📆 Sat 22nd Nov 10.30am - 2.30pm
🎟️ FREE, drop-in!
#RowvemberChester
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 20: Cowper House
Grade I at 12 Bridge Street. Built by Mayor Thomas Cowper (1641/42) with "TC 1664" carved beam. The 13th century undercroft has a window proving ground levels were once lower - Chester literally grew upwards, burying its own past!
Image: @Stuartrobphoto
Step back in time with Miles the Mason this Saturday for a FREE family walking tour revealing how Chester's unique Rows were built by hardworking masons like him.
11am 👉 buff.ly/jCV6elv
2pm 👉 buff.ly/iMaiSOh
Funded by Chester Archaeological Society.
#RowvemberChester #ChesterRows #FamilyFriendly
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 19: 12-16 Northgate Street
Home to legendary Rosies nightclub! Built 1912/13 but hides medieval timbers in the Row walkway & a Roman hypocaust at the rear of no.16. From Roman heating to dance floor - 2,000 years of Chester history beneath your feet!
Image: From archives.
✨ FREE Family Fun This Saturday in Chester! ✨
🎨 "Missing Building" Workshop - St Peter's Church (10.30am-2.30pm)
🏺 Roman Medicine Roadshow - Grosvenor Museum (10.30am-4.30pm)
🏛️ Rows Family Tours with Miles the Mason
Book tours 👉 heritagechester.co.uk
#RowvemberChester #GladiatorsOfChester
✨ Last few tickets remaining! Storytelling & Spirits at Providence Gin 🕯️
Join author David Atkinson for spine-tingling tales from Chester's Rows paired with spirit tastings, artisan cheese & gin to take home.
📆 19th Nov👉 buff.ly/5D1j6DL
#RowvemberChester
🎨 #ChesterUrbanSketchers - Wed 19 Nov
Celebrating #RowvemberChester sketching Chester's medieval Rows!
📍 The Cross, Watergate St, 10:15am
⛪ Inside St Peter's Church from 10:30
🖼️ Throwdown 12:30pm
Perfect covered sketching spot whatever the weather. All abilities welcome!
