Lower Peover, Knutsford church 1907 local publisher

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Lower Peover church, Knutsford, Cheshire
• Publisher:  Thornton Ltd., Altrincham
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  Edward VI ½d yellowish-green
• Postmark(s):  Harrogate Oct 17 1907 cds
• Sent to:  Miss Dorothy Bennett, Pasture Lane, North Wheatley, Retford, Notts.
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Lower Peover is a village in the civil parish of Nether Peover^[1] in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, approximately 6 miles east of Northwich and 4 miles south of Knutsford. The boundary of the civil parish deviates slightly to include Lower Peover in Nether Peover and not the adjacent civil parish of Peover Inferior.

St Oswald's Church, Lower Peover is in the village of Lower Peover, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ744743). It is a Grade I listed building.^[1] The church differs from the majority of churches in Cheshire in that its body is timber framed.^[2] It is one of the oldest timber framed churches in Europe.^[3] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Knutsford. Its benefice is combined with that of St Lawrence, Over Peover.^[4]

 church has been on this site since at least 1269, when it was a chapel of ease to Great Budworth.^[5] A south chapel was added around 1610 and the north chapel in 1624.^[6] The west tower was erected probably before 1582.^[1][5] The aisles were altered and re-roofed in 1852 by Anthony Salvin^[1] and there have been subsequent restorations.

The tower is built in Alderley sandstone and the body of the church is timber framed.^[1] The plan consists of a west tower, nave and chancel, with north and south aisles and chapels at their east ends.^[6] The tower has three stages, with a west door above which is a two-light window. On the north, west and south faces are lozenge-shaped clock-faces and two-light belfry windows. The top of the tower is crenellated and on each corner are diagonal buttresses.^[1] The north chapel is the Holford chapel, which is now used for the organ chamber and vestry. The south chapel is the Hulme or Grosvenor chapel and at its east end, divided by a screen, is the small Shakerley chapel