Church Of St Phillip

The Church of St Phillip, built in 1860 by T Bower of Nantwich, is a Grade II listed building located on the north side of Chester Road in Kelsall. Constructed from rockfaced buff sandstone, it features a Welsh slate roof with a red tile ridge and is designed in the Decorated style. The church consists of a 4-bay nave, a 2-bay chancel, a south porch, a vestry, and a sanctus bellcote.

The gabled south porch has a heavy, two-centred arched entrance supported by stout shafts with undressed capitals. Behind this entrance is a similar doorcase on pairs of shafts that contains a pair of doors adorned with ornate hinges. The bays of the nave and chancel are divided by buttresses; the nave is fitted with 2-light windows that feature alternate quatrefoil and trefoil plate tracery, while the chancel has pairs of lancets with trefoil heads. The east window is a 3-light design with sexfoils and a quatrefoil, complete with a label mould that has plain rectangular stops. A similar 4-light west window can also be found. On the north side, the vestry has a hexagonal end topped with a pyramidal roof.

Inside, the church is tall and plain, finished in ashlar. The chancel arch is ovolo-moulded and rebated, with the outer part resting on shafts that extend to the floor, while the inner part is supported by a stout shaft that springs from a corbel at mid-height, both featuring undressed capitals. The plain font is quatrefoil in section and stands on four short shafts.