St Mary's Chapel, High Legh

St Mary's Chapel, High Legh
St Mary's Chapel, High Legh Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°21′05″N 2°27′04″W / 53.3514°N 2.4511°W / 53.3514; -2.4511
OS grid reference	SJ 701 839
Location	High Legh, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Architecture
Status	Former parish church
Heritage designation	Grade II*
Designated	5 March 1959
Architect(s)	John Oldrid Scott
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic, Gothic Revival
Completed	1884
Specifications
Materials	Ashlar stone with tiled roof
Administration
Diocese	Chester
Province	York

St Mary's Chapel, High Legh, is a former Anglican parish church in the village of High Legh, Cheshire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.^[1]

History

The chapel was built around 1581 as a chapel of ease to High Legh East Hall. High Legh became a separate parish in 1817. The parish was refounded in 1973 with the nearby St John's Church as the parish church.^[2] The hall has been demolished. The church was restored in 1836, another restoration was carried out by William Butterfield in 1858, and the chancel, designed by John Oldrid Scott, was added in 1884.^[3]

Architecture

Exterior

The chapel is built in ashlar stone with a tiled roof. Its plan consists of a nave with aisles and a chancel. On the west front is a central porch with pilasters. Above the porch is a three-light Perpendicular window and on each side are two light perpendicular windows. On the gable is a square bell turret with a single bell. On the east front is a four-light 19th-century Perpendicular-style window.^[1]

Interior

The ceiling has 19th-century pargeting with Tudor roses, fleurs de lys and stars. The pews in the nave dated 1858 are by Butterfield and the wainscotting and screens of 1884 by are by J. Oldrid Scott.^[1]

External features

To mark the 2000 Millennium a carved stone was erected in the grounds of the chapel.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Chapel of St Mary, High Legh", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1139516, retrieved 2 May 2011 
2. ^ Bolton, Humphrey (January 2007), High Legh, Macclesfield District, Cheshire: History, Geograph, http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/High-Legh---Macclesfield-District---Cheshire, retrieved 16 January 2008 
3. ^ Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 399, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 
4. ^ Thornber, Craig, A Scrapbook of Cheshire Antiquities: Leigh and Legh of High Legh: East Hall and its Chapel, http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/legh.html, retrieved 16 January 2008 

External links

• Information about the stained glass from the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) of Great Britain