Chapel Of St Chad

The Chapel of St Chad is a chapel of ease, largely rebuilt between 1689 and 1691 in irregular Flemish bond brown brickwork with a graded grey slate roof. It is situated east of Chester Road, on the A41 in Tushingham cum Grindley. The building incorporates a small, pyramid-roofed tower with a replaced oak west door, a single loophole above the door, a plain band at the belfry floor, paired camber-headed bell openings, and a weathercock. A southern verge of the nave roof is flush with the west face of the tower. The west end of the nave was likely modified around 1822 to accommodate an external flight of ten stone steps leading to a Vawdrey gallery.

A vestry projects south from the west bay of the nave and features a two-light wooden Gothick window with leaded glazing within recessed basket-arched openings. To the east of the vestry are two replaced three-light rectangular wooden windows, also with leaded glazing, with the centre lights of each window featuring interlacing. The chancel bay has a similar window, but without interlacing. A pair of round-arched east windows contain inserted stained glass. The north side has three windows, all with interlaced leads in the central lights. The exterior features triangular buttresses and coped gables with kneelers and ball finials.

Inside, an oak Vawdrey gallery occupies the west end, featuring an octagonal central panel decorated with a rose and two rectangular panels to each side. The nave and chancel have a quarry-tile floor laid diagonally in the central aisle. Oak trusses are supported by corbel brackets; these trusses have a king-post between the tie beam and collar, flanked by five rectangular panels, each decorated with a quadrant brace at each corner, a diamond in the centre, and four darts. Between these panels and the principal rafters are two triangular panels, each decorated with a quadrant and a dart. An oak chancel screen has shaped splat balusters above a row of panels. The chapel includes a plain panelled pulpit, a communion table, and a high-backed family box pew on either side. Simple nave pews feature a single oak board for the seat and back, with round-topped ends. The vestry contains a font. All furnishings are of oak.

Memorial tablets commemorate Mary Stephens (died 1800), Mary Vawdrey (died 1822), John Murhall (died 1834), and Thomas Vernon (died 1835). Arms of George III are displayed. A board on the north wall acknowledges benefactors, including John Dod Mercer, John Bostock Senior, William Darwell, Thomas Brereton, and Thomas Dod, and details their financial contributions to the chapel's rebuilding and ongoing repairs.