#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
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM

Chester Heritage Festival
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Behind the 19th century shopfronts, today's #rowvemberbuildingoftheday is another of Chester’s medieval gems.

Swipe for key facts 👉

#rowvember #rowvemberchester
November 29, 2024 at 9:24 AM

Chester Heritage Festival
@chesterherifest
Today's #buildingofthedayrowvember is the site of the puppet theatre explosion!
If that's not a story you know, head back here later to find out more.
Swipe for key facts 👉
#rowvember #rowvemberchester
November 15, 2024 at 4:25 PM
✨ #RowvemberChester Building Day 5

A Grade II* giant designed to look Elizabethan! WT Lockwood created this timber-framed beauty with stunning Art Nouveau carving. The twist? The fancy faience façade was only used at street level - the full building version never happened!

Image: @Stuartrobphoto
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🎨 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
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 12: Three Old Arches ✨

Grade I with the earliest identified shopfront in England! The three arches date to c.1200, the hall above to 14th century. The Rows' largest surviving medieval hall - yet probably the least well known. A hidden treasure!
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#RowvemberChester Building of the Day 1

38-42 Watergate Street: 14th century, Grade II

Originally a soaring open hall, it was split in the 1400s with a huge chimney & new floor. Look for 3 arches of the buttery passage (servants' area) - visible through the window at no.38 ☕

Image @Stuartrobphoto
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 6

37 Watergate Street. The OLDEST! Grade I with undercroft fabric from 1180-1280. The twist? Its undercroft extends under the Row walkway - showing this medieval building originally jutted into the street before continuous walkways existed!

Image: @Stuartrobphoto
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
✨ #RowvemberChester Day 3

50 Eastgate Street: Grade II listed but rebuilt in 1963! The Georgian-style facade is a 1960s copy of the 18th century townhouse that once stood here.

Listed for being a really good fake - architectural preservation through recreation! 🏛️

Image: @Stuartrobphoto
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
✨ #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
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
✨ #RowvemberChester Building of the Day 2

37-41 Bridge Street: Roman meets medieval! Bridge Café & Bistro has an actual Roman hypocaust (underfloor heating) in the cellar - 2,000 years of history beneath your coffee! Grade I listed.

Pop in & ask to see the Roman remains ☕🏛️

Image: @Stuartrobphoto
November 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📣 ROWVEMBER is nearly here! 📣

This November, we're celebrating Chester's extraordinary architectural treasure – The Rows!

🎫 Most events are free and family-friendly!

Full programme 👉 www.heritagechester.co.uk/rowvember

#Rowvember #RowvemberChester #ChesterRows #HeritageChester #VisitChester
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🎨 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
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
✨#RowvemberChester Day 17:Gamull House

Grade II* with a medieval hall accessed by external steps. The oak door to the toilets? That's the former screens passage separating servants from the hall. Below, brick barrel vaulted undercrofts now house a pub.

Image: @Stuartrobphoto
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
✨#RowvemberChester Day 15: 26 Watergate Street

Grade II* from 1710, built against the encased medieval wall of Booth's Mansion. Home to Crichton - the only tailors in central Chester still making products on the premises. Georgian elegance meets medieval bones!

Image: @Stuartrobphoto
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Discover the Long-standing and the Lost Rows of Chester with our FREE guided tour led by Paul Hyde this Rowvember!

📆 Nov 10th 2.15pm 👉 buff.ly/TAhiIuU
📆 Nov 13th 6.15pm 👉 buff.ly/KAeq3xP
📆 Nov 16th 10.45am 👉 buff.ly/EEHko7b

#RowvemberChester #ChesterRows
November 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎨 Art Returns to the Streets! Digital print of historic paintings of Chester's Rows are back in the exact locations they depict - in shop windows all November!

Find out where 👉 buff.ly/4pwvCao

#RowvemberChester
November 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
✨ #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
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🕯️ Tonight! Last few tickets remaining!

Join David Atkinson for a captivating evening of storytelling & book signing as he unveils the shadowy tales from 'A Dark History of Chester'!

📍 Pickles Chester
🎟️ FREE event👉 buff.ly/jBa7Fmw

#RowvemberChester
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🥃 #RowvemberChester event: Storytelling & Spirits at Providence Gin! Dark tales from Chester's Rows paired with spirit tastings, artisan cheese & a mini gin to take home.

Book 12th Nov 👉 buff.ly/zd2oIyD
Book 19th Nov 👉 buff.ly/5D1j6DL

Image @Stuartrobphoto
November 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
✨#RowvemberChester Day 21: 9-11 Northgate Street

Grade II by John Douglas, opened 1897 as drapers. Part of Shoemakers Row reconstruction with exceptional timber carving on the arcade. Medieval stone undercrofts survive below - old foundations supporting Victorian ambitions!
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
✨ #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.
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
✨ 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
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The Rows are more than covered walkways - they're 4-story architectural puzzles built over centuries!

The anatomy:
✨ Undercrofts (street level) - medieval cellars
✨ Medieval halls above
✨ Row walkways connecting them
✨ Stallboards creating the cover

Image: @Stuartrobphoto

#RowvemberChester
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM