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St Mary

Architectural Features

gabled old tile roof

3-light geometrical-style east window: chancel side walls each have early C12 roll-moulded lancet: north vestry has mid C19 round-arched windows

3-bay nave with 2-light curvilinear-style windows, and south porch with pointed moulded doorway and C15 three-light trefoil-headed windows

Early C12 south doorway has hood of grapes, leaves and fruit over zig-zag arch: jamb shafts with scalloped capitals and quatrefoil imposts: mid C19 plank door

Interior: chancel has brass of Thomas Symeon and wife, d.1522, floor slab with figure of priest, c.1340, and alabaster floor tablet to Susanna Ackworth, d.1585

Vestry has wall monument to Thomas Barnard, d.1582

Early C12 chancel arch has hood with flat reeded leaves over moulded arch on imposts decorated with star-in-square pattern

jamb shafts carved with basket weave (south) and interlace (north) have cable necks

Nave has top half of Jacobean pulpit set on C19 platform

C12 font with mid C19 cover, and mid C19 pews, lectern and arch-braced roof: brass tablet by Eric Gill in memory of Alfred St

South porch has some medieval floor tiles, floor tablet to Thomas Pyrton d.1701, early C19 wall tablets (Wiggins family) and C15 arch-braced collar trusses

Stained glass: fine east window, south-east nave window by Clayton and Bell, 1893

The Church was given to Runcorn Priory, Cheshire in 1115: the fine Norman features probably date from this time

National Monuments Record).