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St Helen

St Helen

Tarporley

Cheshire

C15 with extensive C19 additions and alterations by Crowther of Manchester, repaired 1931-2 by Percy Worthington.

Architectural Features

Corbel table above this supporting parapet with gargoyles to the corners and blind encircled quatrefoils to the parapet.

Italian C16 Siennese gates to centre with fretwork panels and quatrefoils to lower body and adorsed and affronted S-scrolls.

Monuments: to Sir John Crewe of Utkinton d. 1711.

Life size figure in drapery and a wig propped on his side his right arm resting on a bible and clenching his left hand in prayer.

The monument is thought to be by the sculptor William Stanton (1639-1705), and depicts three figures in white marble. They are of Jane Done (†1662) and Mary Crewe (†1690) daughters of Sir John Done, and also of Mary Knightly (holding a posy of flowers), the granddaughter of Mary Crew. It is said that the little girl drowned at Utkinton Hall whilst picking flowers.

Monument to Jane Done d. 1662 and her sister, Mary Crewe d. 1690.

The monument is thought to be by the sculptor William Stanton (1639-1705), and depicts three figures in white marble. They are of Jane Done (†1662) and Mary Crewe (†1690) daughters of Sir John Done, and also of Mary Knightly (holding a posy of flowers), the granddaughter of Mary Crew. It is said that the little girl drowned at Utkinton Hall whilst picking flowers.

© Mike Searle

White chest with black marble top and white marble figures.

Recumbant figure of Jane to front holding a bible in her left hand.

At her feet is the figure of her grand daughter Mary Devereux Knightly who died in 1674 aged one year.