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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Bosley

Cheshire

Church, tower circa 1500, nave 1777, chancel 1834 by James Green.

Architectural Features

Tower of 3 stages has C19 boarded west door in medieval arch, diagonal buttresses with tooled quoins above, roughly-squared rubble walls, west window of 2 trefoil lights, bell-openings converted to 3 trefoil lights 1878-9, hoodmoulds on grotesque and head corbels.

glass of late C19 and late C20.

Good mid C17 oak pulpit on pillar has panels and corner colonettes

parish chest probably late C16

The font dates from the 19th century, possibly contemporary with the tower addition of 1878.

C19 stone font

The font dates from the 19th century, possibly contemporary with the tower addition of 1878.

© Alan Murray-Rust

monument to John William Nowell, railway engineer, 1806-51 by Sanders, Euston Road.