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St Margaret

St Margaret

Wrenbury

Cheshire

Early C16 with C18 and C19 alterations and additions, the nave and porch having been restored in 1794 and the chancel rebuilt in 1806 and re-Gothicised in 1865.

Architectural Features

Red sandstone ashlar with a plain tile roof.

Shields to the spandrels and a Tudor hood mould.

Gargoyle to left of centre and battlemented parapet above with crocketed pinnacles to the corners.

Buttresses between with offsets and a battlemented parapet above set with large robustly carved gargoyles.

Square pulpit with chamfered corners and fluted pilasters similar to that at the Church of St. Peter , Little Budworth C.P., Vale Royal R.D.C. Fine series of wall memorial tablets in the chancel to the Cotton and Starkey families including three by John Bacon junior to Thomas Starkey of 1805 to J Jennings of London brother of Elinor Starkey of 1809 and to Elinor Starkey of 1815 all showing figures in relief against an obelisk above rectangular tablets with an apron.

Memorial by Turner, architect of Chester, to Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton Bart. of Combermere Abbey of 1775 showing urns in relief against an obelisk, also a memorial by Theed to Stapleton Cotton, Viscount Combermere, showing classical figures, of 1865 with a portrait medallion to the surmount.