Architectural Features
North chapel probably of 1648
Red English garden wall bond with stone dressings and plain tile roof.
Gargoyles over all 3 buttresses.
This stone carved gargoyle on the 15th century south chapel has had its rainwater-shedding function taken over by a modern hopper.
Windows have transitional tracery, very shallow curve to sides of pointed arches and hood-moulds which have carved heads as label stops.
West face: Central door With stone reveals and archway with projecting springers and keystone, now blocked with rubble to lower half and C19 stained glass above.
Free-standing marble sarcophagus with effigies of Philip Mainwaring and his wife Ellen 1647 both lying in praying position, he in armour.
Two alabaster tomb slabs to Philip Mainwaring and his wife, 1573 and Sir John Mainwaring and his wife, 1586.
Replaced sarcophagus with recumbent praying effigies of John Mainwaring and his wife, 1410.
The north chapel of 1648, is one of the earliest regular classical buildings in the region. [Source:] Nicholas Pevsner & The Buildings of England: Cheshire, 1971.