St Mary and All Saints Church, Great Budworth
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View of St Mary and All Saints Church, Great Budworth, showing the church, lych gate and stocks
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 St Mary and All Saints Church,
Great Budworth Location in Cheshire
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| Coordinates: 53°17′37″N 2°30′15″W / 53.2936°N 2.5043°W | |
| OS grid reference | SJ 663 775 |
| Location | Great Budworth, Cheshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | St Mary and All Saints |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade I |
| Architect(s) |
Anthony Salvin William Butterfield |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Perpendicular |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 121 feet (37 m) |
| Width | 52 feet (16 m) |
| Materials | Red sandstone |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Great Budworth |
| Deanery | Great Budworth |
| Archdeaconry | Chester |
| Diocese | Chester |
| Province | York |
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| Vicar(s) | Rev Alec Brown |
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".
In the Domesday Book there is a reference to a priest at Great Budworth. The church and its living were given to the Augustinian canons of Norton Priory by William FitzNigel, Constable of Chester and Baron of Halton in 1130. Geoffrey de Dutton was an early benefactor of the church, as later were the Booths of Twemlow. The oldest part of the present church, the Lady Chapel, dates from the 14th century; the rest of the church from the 15th and 16th centuries. Rowland Egerton-Warburton of Arley Hall paid for a restoration of the church in the 1850s.
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