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St Helen

St Helen

Northwich

Cheshire

Church, C14 origin, enlarged late C15/early C16, restored C19.

Architectural Features

Crenellated 4-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, west door, basket-arched panel-traceried 4-light west window, 2-light bellringers' windows on north and south faces, empty niche on west face, clock with faces to all sides, paired panel-traceried 2-light bell openings, band carved with foliage, faces and beasts at belfry floor and, simpler, above west window and below bellringers' windows

gargoyles

carved to each side of south bellringers' window in restored raised letters THOMAS:HUNTER.

5-light east window to south chapel in canted niche, the reveals carved with quatrefoils and with 5 panels of blank tracery below.

large carved bosses at junctions of main beams and smaller ones at junctions of secondary beams.

Framed royal arms on south wall of tower

clock 1888 given by vicar as memorial to his father Hibbert Binney DD Bishop of Nova Scotia 1851-1887

Late C19 glass, biblical scenes vigorously expressed.

With St Mary's Nantwich and St Michael's, Middlewich, one of the 3 major medieval salt town churches in Cheshire.