Churches in CheshireCheshire, England

Red-sandstone cathedral founded as a Benedictine abbey in 1092, with fine medieval choir stalls, a cloister and a tower you can climb.

Chester

Black-and-white timber-framed church at Siddington, consecrated in 1521 and still largely of oak.

Siddington

Plain 1689 Nonconformist chapel in Knutsford where the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell worshipped and is buried.

Knutsford

Small church at Barthomley, scene of a notorious Civil War massacre in 1643.

Barthomley

Fine 14th-century collegiate church at Bunbury on a site of Christian worship since Saxon times.

Bunbury

Church on a sandstone outcrop above the Dee at Farndon, a place of worship since Celtic times, with a Civil War memorial window.

Farndon

Home to the leaning 'Tower of Cheshire', all that stands of a church repeatedly sunk by the marl at Wybunbury.

Wybunbury

Church with a 500-year-old barrel roof standing above a picturesque pond, facing the Tudor manor of Gawsworth Hall.

Gawsworth

Handsome sandstone church rising over the estate village of Great Budworth, with a fine 14th-century tower.

Great Budworth

Large medieval church at Acton near Nantwich, with a squat tower and a churchyard of table tombs.

Acton

One of the most exciting churches in Cheshire, a battlemented sandstone church at Astbury with a detached tower and rich ancient fittings.

Astbury

The 'cathedral of south Cheshire', a great 14th-century sandstone church at Nantwich with a stone-vaulted chancel and famous carved misericords.

Nantwich

Church on a hill above Rostherne Mere, its wooded setting mentioned in a deed of 1188.

Rostherne

Rare timber-framed medieval church at Lower Peover, its aisles built of black-and-white oak with a 1582 west tower.

Lower Peover

Grade I sandstone church crowning the highest point of Malpas, with a fine roof and two family chapels.

Malpas