Remains Of The Old Church Of St Chad

the late-C15 Lady Chapel, the latter being altered in the C16

As such, the chapel’s north and west walls respectively represent the chancel’s south wall and the south transept’s east wall, both C12 with later alterations.

It has a moulded, pointed arch and double doors with deep moulded panels dated 1663.

To the left-hand side of the arch is a triple sedilia, probably C15, with Perpendicular lierne vaulting.

Above this is a C13 blocked lancet.

INTERIOR: the interior is whitewashed with the walls hung with wall tablets and hatchments.

In the north-west corner there is a late-C12 foliage capital and a diagonally set shaft with a damaged capital.

MONUMENTS: surviving monuments include a memorial to Thomas Edwards, d. 1634, and his wife, erected after 1641.

A memorial to Richard Taylor, d. 1741, comprises a wall tablet with Ionic side columns with bold brackets and a central leaf corbel.

A memorial to Richard Hollings, d. 1741, is signed by TF Pritchard and is of red mottled marble on which delicate drops of flowers and husks are displayed.