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Churches which still retain west gallery
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Alderley,
dedication
not known |
18th C. west
gallery |
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Ashton-on-Mersey,
dedication
not known
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Massive West
Gallery - "mostly 18th C. (A
M) |
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Astbury,
St
Mary |
Detached 14th C. spire, stalls, rood screen,
magnificent roofs with pendants, 17th C. altar rails, box pews . . . (CEPC) |
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Baddiley,
St Michael |
"Painted Creed, Commandments, Lord's Prayer and
Coats of Arms are dated 1663 . . . Box pews and a pretty pulpit"(CEPC) West gallery 17th-18th C. |
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Birkenhead,
Christ
Church |
The church is of red sandstone from
the quarries nearby and was finished in 1849. It was the largest
church to be built in Wirral and was designed by Robert William
Jearnard, an architect from London. It contains a west
gallery and two transept galleries. |
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Birtles,
St Catherine |
A "freak" church of 1840 brick in a wooded
setting. Lots of Renaissance Dutch and Flemish oak, including a manorial pew.
(CEPC) |
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Capesthorne,
Holy Trinity |
A chapel of a great house, built 1772, of brick
with stone facings. Pews face each other, college-chapel fashion, raised
manorial pew at west end. (CEPC) |
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Chelford,
dedication
not known |
Church dates from
1776. West gallery and Box-pews |
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Cholmondeley,
St Nicholas |
Private chapel in grounds of Cholmondeley Castle.
The Cholmondeley pew is called the State Gallery, its cushions being made from
the robes used at the coronation of William IV. (CEPC)
Pew, screen, altar rails, galleries and box-pews (AM)
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Congleton,
St
Peter |
Unspoilt town church of 1742. Galleries on three
sides, supported on piers with columns above. Fine box-pews throughout, those
in the galleries are steeply tiered. The pulpit is placed centrally in front of
the Altar. (CEPC) |
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Holmes
Chapel
St Luke |
Roof
supports date from 1425. Church contains both west
gallery, now supporting organ, and south gallery. The
south gallery was installed in 1705 as a gift from Thomas
Hall shortly after the new brick walls had been built. The
wooden stairway up to the gallery was originally located at
the other end of the nave but was moved to this end in 1831.
It was moved again to its present position in 1898 and the
space behind and under it is used as the choir vestry. |
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Hoole,
dedication not known |
Has west gallery, but no
further details known. |
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Little Budsworth
St Peter |
18th C. pulpit |
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Lower Peover
St Oswald |
Timber-built church, with massive stone tower.
The furniture is very good indeed, with box-pews, some with the lower halves of
the doors fixed to retain the rushes, Jacobean rails, altar and screen. It
still looks as must once have looked many Cheshire churches. (CEPC) |
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Malpas
St Oswald |
A few old stalls |
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Mobberley,
dedication not
known |
Jacobean
gallery (AM) |
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Saltersford, Jenkin Chapel |
This remote mountain chapel looks like a
converted farmhouse with a low tower added. The roof is heavy Kerridge slabs;
the sash windows are square and domestic; there is a chimney stack half-way
along the south wall. It was in fact built as a chapel in 1733 (tower in
1754/55) and its furniture and fittings remain intact. (CEPC) |
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Shotwick
St Michael |
In a by-passed and secluded hamlet; both church
and village were strategically important, and the church tower is
fortress-like. Inside are twin naves separate by a low arcade, one perhaps
planned as a chapel to the Virgin Mary to rival the nave proper (as was
sometimes the case in other Welsh churches). Box-pews, three-decker pulpit, and
a notable canopied seat for the church-wardens. (CEPC) |
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Siddington,
dedication not
known |
Has west gallery, but no further
details known. |
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Stockport,
St Mary
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Known to have galleries, but
details not known. |
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Stockport,
St Thomas
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Church dates from 1825 and has
galleries on three sides. |
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Threapwood
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Church 1815. Three galleries. |
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Tushingham,
St Chad
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Church 1689-91, small, simple and rectangular.
Now a Redundant Church.
West gallery with outside stair. Gallery
possibly circa 1821, as in that year the owner of the manor, Daniel Vawdrey,
offered to pay for its construction. (Chatfield) |
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Warburton,
St Werburgh |
A small secluded church of great interest, of
timber, with some walls replaced by stonework in 1645, and some with brick in
1711. Brick tower also 1711. Constructional timbers divide off the aisles.
Screen, pulpit, altar and communion rails are Jacobean; box-pews are 1813 but
look earlier. (CEPC) |
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Woodhey,
Private Chapel |
The house has gone, but there are still traces of
the garden terrace and a great barn for the Home Farm. Circa 1700, with earlier
portico. Round-headed windows of plain glass.
The chapel is tiny, but
has separate entrances to the ground floor and to the manorial pew above, with
its two fire-places. Panelled walls, no altar, but a notable pulpit and pews
set college fashion. (CEPC) |
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Wrenbury,
St Margaret |
An early 16th C. church overlooking the Village
green. All conspicuously battlemented. Renovations in the 1920s and 1930s have
spoilt the interior somewhat, but the box-pews remain, with crests on the pew
doors, hatchments and a west gallery. (CEPC) |
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Churches which are known to have had west
gallery features or connections |
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Lower Peover
St Oswald |
17th century west gallery pulled down 1852. |
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Chapels which are known to have, or have
had, west
gallery features or connections |
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Nether
Tabley, Chapel |
West gallery 1675, moved
1928 - complete furnishings. (? Is this an Anglican
chapel) |
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churches in preparation
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