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The nave of All Saints was built in brick in 1803 but the church is much older than this. The south doorway is Norman with bold carving and the tower, built in two sections, is in the Perpendicular style. Inside their is a monument to John Byber of 1555; his initials are on the tower. There are a few examples of churches in Cheshire where red brickwork covers an original timber frame, as at Holmes Chapel.
Arthur Mee reports the story that Charles II in a room at Lawton Hall and that he was Godfather at the Christening of the eldest son of the family.
Sources:
The King's England - Cheshire by Arthur Mee, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1938, fully revised and edited by E. T. Long in 1968, SBN 340 00075 9
The Buildings of England: Cheshire, by Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard, first edition 1971, Yale University Press edition in 2003.
