Building record 1354/1/1 - Church of All Saints, Siddington

Church of All Saints,Pexhill Rd.Late C16,largely enclosed in brick shell of c.1815.Timber frame with rendered infill & brick.Slate roof.S front- nave of 4 bays.Timber framed gabled porch.Chancel of 2 bays with close studding below & chevron framing between timber mullioned windows.N wall- timber framed vestry with stone plinth & close studding.E wall-close studding below with chevron framing above.W wall-early C19 painted to simulate timber framing.Int:Nave of 3 bays with trusses of arched principals,2 purlins & a ridge beam with wind braces to both sides of purlins.Lower panelled ceiling to chancel supported on Tudor-arched brace supported on semi-oct wall posts. Chancel walls show framing,nave walls of plaster painted to simulate framing. Full arch desc (1).Church thought to have been founded in C14,but 1st docmtry evidence is a ref to this Chapel of Ease to Prestbury in will of Robert Sydington in 1474.Chapel not consecrated for baptisms or burials til 1721(2).

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /6/98 (Report). SCH1934.

<2> Richards R, 1947, Old Cheshire Churches, Richards R 1947 /303-5 (Book). SCH2309.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ87SW6/1964 (Index). SCH2487.