St Chad's Church, Tushingham | |
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St Chad's Church, Tushingham, from the south
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Coordinates: 53°00′47″N 2°42′48″W / 53.0131°N 2.7134°W | |
OS grid reference | SJ 522 464 |
Location | Chester Road, Tushingham, Cheshire |
Country | England |
Denomination | Anglican |
Website | St Chad, Tushingham |
History | |
Dedication | Saint Chad |
Architecture | |
Status | Parish church |
Functional status | Active |
Heritage designation | Grade II |
Designated | 1 March 1967 |
Architect(s) | Robert Jennings Hodgson Fowler |
Architectural type | Church |
Style | Gothic Revival |
Groundbreaking | 1860 |
Completed | 1863 |
Specifications | |
Materials | Sandstone, slate roofs |
Administration | |
Parish | St Chad, Tushingham |
Deanery | Malpas |
Archdeaconry | Chester |
Diocese | Chester |
Province | York |
Clergy | |
Vicar(s) | Revd Stephen James Walton |
St Chad's Church is on Chester Road (the A41) in the civil parish of Tushingham cum Grindley, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Malpas, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester. Its benefice is combined with those of St Michael, Marbury, and St Mary, Whitewell. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
St Chad's was built between 1860 and 1863 to a design by Robert Jennings of Atherstone, and the tower was added in 1897 by Hodgson Fowler.
The church is constructed in red sandstone with grey slate roofs. Its plan is cruciform, and consists of a three-bay nave with a south porch, single-bay transepts, a two-bay chancel, a sacristy in the corner of the chancel and the north transept, and a west tower. The tower has three stages in Perpendicular style, with an octagonal northwest stair turret, and a crenelated parapet. In the bottom stage is a three-light west window and a statue of Saint Chad in a niche, single-light trefoil-headed windows on the north and south sides of the middle stage, and two-light bell openings in the top stage. The body of the church is in Early English style with lancet windows.