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St Chad's Church, Over 
St Chad's Church, Over, from the southeastLocation in Cheshire
St Chad's Church, OverCoordinates: 53°10′54″N 2°31′30″W / 53.1818°N 2.5249°W OS grid reference SJ 650 651 Location Winsford, Cheshire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Chad, Over History Dedication Saint Chad Dedicated 11 October 1949 Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II* Architect(s) Ewan Christian and
W Milford Teulon
John DouglasArchitectural type Church Style Gothic, Gothic Revival Completed 1926 Specifications Height 74 feet (23 m) Materials Red sandstone ashlar, lead roof Administration Parish Over Deanery Middlewich Archdeaconry Chester Diocese Chester Province York St Chad's Church, Over, is in the town of Winsford, Cheshire, England. It was formerly in the separate town of Over, but with the growth of Winsford it has become part of this town. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.[1] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Middlewich.[2]
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History
The church originates from the 14th century and it has been modified on a number of occasions. The original church consisted of a nave with a narrow north aisle, a wide south aisle and a chancel. The south aisle was built in 1543 by Hugh Starkie of Oulton, a gentleman usher to Henry VIII and a benefactor to Cheshire churches.[3] In 1870 the church was restored by Ewan Christian and W Milford Teulon. The north aisle was widened in 1904 by John Douglas.[1] The south aisle and nave were lengthened in 1926 but the 14th-century east window was retained.[3]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is built of red sandstone ashlar with a lead roof.[1] Its plan consists of a tower at the west end, a nave with aisles, a chancel, a vestry to the northeast, and a southeast porch. At the east end of each aisle is a chapel.[4] The porch has two storeys, the upper projecting over the lower one.[3] Most of the church is in Perpendicular style although the east window is Decorated.[5]
Interior
A lavishly decorated stoup is in the porch,[5] and Hugh Starkie's tomb lies in the sanctuary.[3] The octagonal font is dated 1641. In the chancel is a decorated Saxon stone.[4] This consists of a sarcophagus in a recess with a brass effigy.[5]
There are fragments of medieval and 19th-century glass in one of the north windows.[5] Three of the stained glass windows in the north aisle are by Kempe.[6][7] The two-manual organ was built by Jardine and Company in 1916, and rebuilt in 1987 by Sixsmith.[8] The parish registers begin in 1558 and the churchwardens' accounts in 1733.[3]
Bells
The church originally had four bells, dated 1513, but these were recast into five bells by Rudhall of Gloucester in 1733. It currently has a ring of eight bells, cast by John Taylor and Company in 1915,[9] which were re-hung in 1938.
External features
Cross base in churchyard
In the churchyard is a cross base dating from around 1543. It consists of a stepped octagonal base supporting the lower section of a cross shaft. It is listed Grade II.[10] The red sandstone churchyard walls and gate piers are also listed Grade II.[11]
See also
- List of church restorations, amendments and furniture by John Douglas
References
- ^ a b c "Church of St Chad, Winsford", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1139180, retrieved 2 May 2011
- ^ St Chad, Over, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/over-st-chad/, retrieved 21 January 2011
- ^ a b c d e Richards, Raymond (1947), Old Cheshire Churches, London: Batsford, pp. 263–267
- ^ a b Salter, Mark (1995), The Old Parish Churches of Cheshire, Malvern: Folly Publications, p. 61, ISBN 1871731232
- ^ a b c d Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 679–680, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
- ^ Thornber, Craig (28 June 2005), A Scrapbook of Cheshire Antiquities: Over & Winsford, http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/over.html, retrieved 6 October 2007
- ^ Winsford, St Chad, Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA), http://www.cvma.ac.uk/jsp/location.do?locationKey=307&mode=COUNTY, retrieved 2 January 2011
- ^ Over St. Chad, British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=R00176, retrieved 11 August 2008
- ^ Over S Chad, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=over&Submit=++Go++&DoveID=OVER++CHES, retrieved 11 August 2008
- ^ "Cross base in Churchyard of St Chad, Winsford", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1310386, retrieved 2 May 2011
- ^ "Churchyard walls and gatepiers at Church of St Chad, Winsford", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1329844, retrieved 2 May 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Cheshire
- Grade II* listed buildings in Cheshire
- Grade II* listed churches
- English Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture in Cheshire
- John Douglas buildings
- Diocese of Chester
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