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| The Swan and Chequers | Fountain | |
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| Town Hall | Detail of Town Hall doorway | |
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| The Old Black Bear Inn, dated 1634 | The Lower Chequer | |
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| The row below the church in evening Light | As left but from the south in morning light | |
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| House dated 1570 | Alms Houses | |
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| Old Hall Hotel | West end of Old Hall Hotel |
The fountain in High Town Square dates from 1897 was erected in 1897 with Tuscan columns. It is in front of the Literary Insitute built by Scott in 1857, which is not shown as it was shrounded with scaffolding when I visited.
The Town Hall foundation stone was laid on 2 July 1889. It was designed by Thomas Bower of Nantwich and built by John Stringer of Sandbach. The site was given by the Rt. Hon. Hungerford Lord Crewe. Just to the left of the town hall is the market hall. Below the church on the east side there is a very deeply cut street running north south and further east again an attractive row of houses running down towards the east. On the opposite side of the road and at a much higher level is the Old Hall Hotel, which dates in part from 1656. The brick built alms houses date from 1856-7 and were built by the Rev. John Armitstead.
Sources:
The Buildings of England, Cheshire, by Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard, Yale University Press, 2003, ISBN 0 300 09588 0
