Church Of St Chad

The Church of St Chad is a Grade II* listed building located in Farndon. It features a 14th-century west tower, a five-bay aisled nave and chancel, both dating from 1660, an early 18th-century north porch, and a 19th-century south transept. The church is constructed of coursed red sandstone with grey slate roofs. The three-stage tower has diagonal buttresses on the west side, square buttresses on the east, and a square turret at the southeast corner. It includes a west door, an inserted panel-traceried west window, and two-light reticulated bell-openings with a lancet above, topped by a plain crenellated parapet. The aisles feature square-headed windows with four round-headed lights, while the clerestory has five-light mullioned windows. The east window displays a unique arrangement of panel tracery. The north porch has a rusticated front with a round-arched classical entrance, likely from the 18th century.

Inside, the church has arcades supported by slim circular columns with plain caps, carrying chamfered arches, and the aisles are covered by lean-to roofs. The south transept, known as the Barnston chapel, contains numerous 19th-century memorials and features 17th-century glass in the east window, which was reset in 1894. This glass depicts royalists Richard Grosvenor, Sir William Mainwaring, William Barnston, and Sir Francis Gamul, along with images of pikemen and trophies of war. There is also a recumbent effigy of a knight in the north aisle, along with late 19th-century and 20th-century memorial glass. Additionally, there are tables of benefactors dated 1679 in the north aisle and 1786 in the tower.