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'''St Chad's Chapel''' (often referred to as '''Old St Chad's''') is an isolated church in the scattered community of [[Tushingham]] in the [[civil parish]] of [[Tushingham-cum-Grindley, Macefen and Bradley]], [[Cheshire]], England. The only approach to the chapel is on footpaths across fields from the [[A41 road]]. It is recorded in the [[National Heritage List for England]] as a designated Grade I [[Listed building#England and Wales|listed building]].<ref name="images">{{NHLE |num= 1130605|desc= St Chad's Chapel, Tushingham cum Grindley|access-date= 13 February 2012|mode=cs2}}</ref>

==History==

Deeds dated 1349 refer to a chapel on this site which was a chapel of ease to [[St Oswald's Church, Malpas]]. A document dated 1621 refers to it as Chadwick Chapel, although by 1636 another document called it Chad Chapel. It was rebuilt in 1689–91 and has been little changed since. The principal financial donations for the chapel were from John Dod, a London [[Mercery|mercer]] who had been born in Tushingham. The chapel is now referred to as Old Chad because its functions have been replaced by [[St Chad's Church, Tushingham|St Chad's Church]] built in 1863 on the [[A41 road]].<ref name="richards">{{citation | last =Richards | first =Raymond | title =Old Cheshire Churches | publisher =B. T. Batsford | year=1947 | location =London | pages =332–334 | oclc =719918}}</ref>

==Architecture==

===Exterior===
The chapel is built in brown brick with a grey [[slate]] roof. Its plan consists of a tower at the west end with an external staircase leading to an internal west gallery. The body of the chapel is in three [[bay (architecture)|bays]] without [[aisle]]s; it is furnished as a [[nave]] and a [[chancel]]. A [[vestry]] projects south from the west bay of the nave. The tower is small with a pyramid-roof. It has a west door with a loophole above it, a plain band at the [[Bell tower|belfry]] floor level, paired camber-headed bell-openings and a [[Weather vane|weathercock]].<ref name="images"/>

===Interior===
The roof is unusual in that the sections between the principal beams are filled with carvings making a star-like pattern. All the chapel furnishings are made from Cheshire oak. The holy table dates from the 17th century, and on each side of it are panelled family [[box pew]]s. On the wall above the south pew are three [[marble]] memorials to the Vernon and Murhall families, and above the north pew is a marble memorial to the Stephens family. Above the two east windows is the [[Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom|royal coat of arms]] of [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]]. A low screen divides the chancel from the nave. The seating in the nave consists of plain seats and backs without any decoration. At the west end is a gallery which is reached by the external staircase.<ref name="richards"/> The [[baptismal font|font]] is [[Jacobean architecture|Jacobean]] in style, and the [[pulpit]] is a three-decker.<ref>{{Citation | last = Hartwell | first = Clare |last2 = Hyde | first2 = Matthew |last3 = Hubbard | first3 = Edward | author3-link=Edward Hubbard (architectural historian) | last4 =Pevsner | first4 =Nikolaus | author4-link =Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title = Cheshire | publisher =[[Yale University Press]]| year =2011| orig-year=1971| location =New Haven and London| page = 644|isbn =978-0-300-17043-6 }}</ref>

==External features==

Adjacent to the church is a small building containing a horse-drawn [[hearse]].<ref name="tr">{{citation | last =Bilsborough | first =Norman | title =The Treasures of Cheshire | publisher =The North West Civic Trust | year =1983 | location =Manchester | pages =[https://archive.org/details/treasuresofchesh00norm/page/90 90–91] | isbn =0-901347-35-3 | url-access =registration | url =https://archive.org/details/treasuresofchesh00norm/page/90 }}</ref> It is built of brown brick with a pyramidal roof of grey slates and is dated 1822. The hearse-house is a Grade II listed building.<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1136255|desc= Hearse house in the grounds of St Chad's Chapel, Tushingham cum Grindley|access-date= 13 February 2012|mode=cs2|fewer-links=x}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Cheshire}}
*[[Grade I listed churches in Cheshire]]
*[[Listed buildings in Tushingham cum Grindley]]

==References==
{{Commons category|Old St Chad's church, Tushingham|St Chad's Chapel, Tushingham}}
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{{Churches in Cheshire}}

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[[Category:Chapels in England]]
[[Category:Grade I listed churches in Cheshire]]
[[Category:Churches completed in 1691]]
[[Category:Church of England church buildings in Cheshire]]
[[Category:Diocese of Chester]]
[[Category:Cheshire West and Chester]]

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