Venue
Chester Crown Court
Crown Court
Location codes
The internal HMCTS references. No other public site surfaces these alongside the venue’s contact details.
Crown Court code415
Addresses
- Visit or contact us
- , Chester CH1 2AN
Contacts
- Telephone
- 01244 317 606General
- Telephone
- 01244 356 713Court Clerks
- Telephone
- 01244 356 726Juror
- Telephone
- 01244 356 725
- Telephone
- 0300 332 1164
- Enquiries
- [email protected]
- Listing
- [email protected]
Opening times
- Court open
- Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
- Telephone enquiries answered
- Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
- Counter open
- Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Areas of law
Facilities
- No parking
- There are no parking facilities at this building except for blue badge holders. Please contact the court for details. The nearest public car park is: The Little Roodee car park, Grosvenor Street, Chester CH1 1SL.
- Disabled access
- There is lift access to all floors and parking can be arranged by contacting the court in advance.
- Assistance dogs
- Assistance dogs are welcome.
- Hearing Loop
- The building has hearing enhancement facilities available by prior arrangement. Please contact the Court office by telephone or email if necessary.
- Security arch
- For safety and security, all users and their possessions will be searched by security when they enter this building. Please alert the security officer if you have a pacemaker.
- Disabled toilet
- Accessible toilets are available and are located on the ground floor.
- Refreshments
- The cafe is now fully open. Vending machines are also available.
- Interview room
- 4 interview rooms are available on the ground floor.
- Baby changing facility
- Baby changing facilities are available in the disabled toilets on the ground floor.
- Video facilities
- Court/hearing room video conferencing facilities and prison to court video link facilities are available (by prior arrangement).
- Wireless network connection
- Access to GovWifi available.
- Hidden Disabilities Sunflower network
- Lanyards available on request.
- Witness service
- www.witnessservice.org.uk
Guidance naming this venue 2
Judicial guidance and court guides that name this venue explicitly.
- Resident Judgesupdated 2026-08-03
cited asChester Crown Court
…arlisle Combined Court Centre HHJ Nicholas Barker 08-02-22 Northern Chester Crown Court HHJ Steven Everett 17-11-18 Northern Liverpool Combined Court Centr…
- A conversation with Recorder Mary Prior QCupdated 2022-07-06
cited aschester Crown Court
…is, otherwise known as Mr Justice Davis. He gave a short speech in Manchester Crown Court where he said, ‘you are a lion at the foot of the throne, not a mouse…