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St Mary

St Mary

Cheadle

Greater Manchester

South chapel 1530, nave 1541, tower 1520-40, chancel 1556-8 for Lady Catherine Buckley

Architectural Features

porch dated 1634.

3-light C19 windows to bays 1 and 3, 4-light C16 double- chamfered cavetto-moulded arched-light mullion window to bay 4.

3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses, moulded bands, clock in stage 2, 4-light belfry opening with hoodmould, castellated parapet and grotesque gargoyles.

Chancel arch on half columns, the north capital bearing a crudely carved head.

Part of rood screen was re-used in the chancel screen and finely carved C16 oak parclose screens to Savage and Brereton chapels.

Monuments: chest tomb with 2 alabaster Knights c.1460

stone recumbent effigy of Sir Thomas Brereton, 1673, on a tomb chest with shields.

C11 cross.