Church Of St Chad

SJ 45 SW FARNDON C.P. CHURCH ROAD

2/28 Church of St. Chad.

1/3/67

• II*

Church: C14 west tower; aisled 5-bay nave of 1660; chancel of 1660; north porch early C18; south transept C19. Coursed red sandstone with grey slate roofs. 3-stage tower has diagonal west buttresses, square east buttresses, square south-east turret; west door, inserted panel-traceried west window, 2-light reticulated bell-openings with a lancet above and a plain crenellated parapet. The aisles have square-headed windows with 4 round-headed lights; clerestorey has 5-light mullioned windows; east window has a curious arrangement of panel tracery; north porch has rusticated front with round-arched classical entrance, probably C18. Interior: Arcades of slim circular columns with plain caps carrying chamfered arches. Aisles under lean-to roofs. South transept is the Barnston chapel, with many C19 memorials and containing C17 glass in east window (Dutch influence) reset in 1894, depicting Richard Grosvenor, Sir William Mainwaring, William Barnston, Sir Francis Gamul, all royalists, and pikemen and trophies of war. Recumbent effigy of knight in north aisle. Late C19 and C20 memorial glass. Tables of benefactors dated 1679 in north aisle and dated 1786 in tower.

Listing NGR: SJ4132354452