Church Of St Chad

TUSHINGHAM CUM GRINDLEY C.P. CHESTER ROAD A41 SJ 54 NW (East side) 3/79 Church of St Chad 1/3/1967 II

Church 1860-63 by Robert Jennings of Atherstone, with west tower 1897 by Hodgson Fowler; of red sandstone with grey slate roofs. Cruciform; 3-stage tower; aisleless 3-bay nave with south porch; l-bay transepts; 2-bay chancel; sacristy in corner of chancel and north transept. The crenelated tower of coursed tooled masonry is Perpendicular with octagonal north-west turret, panel tracery in west window of 3 lights and bell openings of 2 lights, St Chad in niche on south side of lower stage and 1-light trefoil-headed window in north and south sides to bellringers' chamber. The body of the church of random rubble, Early English, has lancet windows with hoodmoulds on stiff-leaf corbels, square buttresses and coped gables with kneelers and finials. Interior: Plastered with stone dressings. Chancel arch with half-octagon responds; transept arches with half-round responds; encaustic tile floor. Arch-braced nave roof; braced collar trusses to chancel roof. Memorials and commemoration windows to members of Kenyon and Vaudrey families, died 1866 to 1917; north window of north transept in memory of Catherine Elizabeth Kenyon, widow of Hon.Edward Kenyon, given by her brother in 1904 - vigorously expressed. Octagonal font on colonnettes in west tower baptistry.

Listing NGR: SJ5223746444