School Lane, Great Budworth, view of St Mary and All Saints' Church, High St, Great Budworth, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW9 6HF

School Lane, Great Budworth, view of St Mary and All Saints' Church, High St, Great Budworth, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW9 6HF Stock Photo
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Tony Smith / Alamy Stock Photo

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2A9GHTH

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44.3 MB (3.2 MB Compressed download)

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3360 x 4608 px | 28.4 x 39 cm | 11.2 x 15.4 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

16 April 2010

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High St, Great Budworth, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW9 6HF

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St Mary and All Saints Church is in the centre of the village of Great Budworth, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. Clifton-Taylor includes it in his list of 'best' English parish churches. Richards describes it as "one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical architecture remaining in Cheshire". The authors of the Buildings of England series express the opinion that it is "one of the most satisfactory Perpendicular churches of Cheshire and its setting brings its qualities out to perfection" It is an impressive church, built generally in the Perpendicular style although the long, and older north transept is constructed in the Decorated style. Built in red sandstone, [2] its plan consists of a west tower, a six-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, and a chancel flanked by chapels to the north and south. The north transept forms the Lady Chapel and the shorter south transept is the Warburton Chapel. At the west end of the south aisle is the south porch. The entire church is crenellated. On the north side of the tower is a sculpture of Saint Christopher and on the south side one of the Blessed Virgin. It has diagonal buttresses and an octagonal south-west turret, a Tudor-arched west window, small arched ringers' windows on the north, west and south faces, a clock on west face, and two-light belfry windows with stone louvres. Its top is crenellated with eight crocketed pinnacles.