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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Aldford

Cheshire

SJ 46 PW SAIGHTON C.P. CHAPEL LANE (East side) 3/28 Church of St Mary the Virgin 1/6/1967 II* Church with late Cll or early C12 chancel arch and, probably, masonry in nave and chancel

Architectural Features

C15 windows

south chapel late C15

the south capital has crudely carved foliage and faces - the north respond was renewed 1896.

On the face to the nave of the porch arch (rebuilt probably C14) are 4 carved voussoirs with motifs probably derived from Norse sun symbols and from Romanesque palmettes.

The font is a stone baluster with hollowed trough, probably C17.

A pair of marble monuments stand in the south chapel: to Sir Robert Cunliffe, 1778, right, signed by Joseph Nollekens, with a seated putto holding a portrait medallion against a dark grey obelisk

Good stained glass, 1897, in the manner of the Arts and Crafts movement, in a plain inserted 3-light north window (Nave).