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St Wilfrid

St Wilfrid

Grappenhall

Cheshire

Church, C12 (nave

Architectural Features

corbel-table), 1334 (South Chapel), 1525-39 (tower and most of fabric), 1834 and 1874 (clerestorey).

Tower of 3 stages has Tudor-arched west door, restored 4-light west window with panel tracery, diagonal west buttresses and square east buttresses, paired bell-openings with quatrefoil heads and crenellation.

Easternmost south window of south aisle has C14 glass depicting St. John Baptist, St. Thomas, St. Bartholomew (flayed, carrying his skin over right arm), St. Mary Magdalene, St. James (or a pilgrim), St. Philip and an unidentified saint.

Fragments of medieval glass elsewhere.

Effigy in chancel (north side)of Sir William Boydell, died 1275, found in churchyard and placed in church 1874, restored.

Norman arcaded rectangular font, found in churchyard and reinstated in nave 1874.

C13 dugout chest.