Building record 1321/1/1 - Church of St James & St Paul

Church of St James & St Paul, Off Manchester Rd. 1 of the timber-frame churches of Cheshire. Founded 1343 or 1370. Timber framed with rendered infill & brick with stone plinth & slate roof. C20 brick ext to chancel. W tower with W N & S lean-to porch roofs (as with Essex towers) & spire. Nave with side aisles, all under same roof pitch & chancel. Tower has close studding to walls of porches. Shingled square tower above with C19 wood louvred belfry openings. Shingled broach spire ending in weather vane. Nave & chancel have close studded wall. Int:3 bay nave with aisles. Arcades of octagonal timber piers with moulded capitals & bases supporting chamfered arched braces across nave & to sides forming arcade arches. Cambered ties to nave roof which has King posts. Full arch descp (1) & (2). Marton is mentioned in Domesday, but church was not built until reign of Edwrd III, being founded by Sir John de Davenport c. mid C14 & in 1370 he gave land to maintain a priest at Marton (3).

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /5/25 (Report). SCH1934.

<2> Pevsner N & Hubbard E, 1971, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, /278-279 (Book). SCH3078.

<3> Richards R, 1947, Old Cheshire Churches, Richards R 1947 /229-231 (Book). SCH2309.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ86NE9/1964 (Index). SCH2487.

<5> Church of St.James & St.Paul - Marton (Book). SCH957.