Cheshire, Marbury
15c Church of St Michael built of red sandstone stands by a big fishing lake. Marbury means "a fortified place near a lake"
A Saxon site and mentioned in Domesday, a timber, wattle and daub church was here in 1299, . The church was a parochial chapel annexed to Whitchurch until 1870, when it became a perpetual curacy. The chancel was added in 1822 by Sir Jeffry Wyatville. Restored In 1892 by Douglas & Fordham,
A schoolhouse built in the churchyard in 1688 was demolished in 1824 (Margery relict of George Bickerton gent gave towards the training up of youth to some reverend school master ..if there be any...if not interest to be given for the use of the poor)
The sandy soil is causing subsidence, the tower being 25 inches from the vertical in 1999
Cheshire, Marbury
15c Church of St Michael built of red sandstone stands by a big fishing lake. Marbury means "a fortified place near a lake"
A Saxon site and mentioned in Domesday, a timber, wattle and daub church was here in 1299, . The church was a parochial chapel annexed to Whitchurch until 1870, when it became a perpetual curacy. The chancel was added in 1822 by Sir Jeffry Wyatville. Restored In 1892 by Douglas & Fordham,
A schoolhouse built in the churchyard in 1688 was demolished in 1824 (Margery relict of George Bickerton gent gave towards the training up of youth to some reverend school master ..if there be any...if not interest to be given for the use of the poor)
The sandy soil is causing subsidence, the tower being 25 inches from the vertical in 1999