All Saints Church, Church Lawton

All Saints’ Church, Church Lawton
All Saints’ Church, Church Lawton, from the south
All Saints’ Church, Church Lawton is located in Cheshire
All Saints’ Church, Church Lawton
All Saints’ Church, Church Lawton
Location in Cheshire
53°05′55″N 2°16′04″W / 53.0987°N 2.2678°W / 53.0987; -2.2678
OS grid referenceSJ 822 556
LocationChurch Lawton, Cheshire
CountryEngland
DenominationAnglican
Websitehttp://www.allsaintschurchlawton.co.uk/
History
StatusParish church
FoundedLate 11th century
Founder(s)Hugh de Mara, Lord of Lawton (?)
DedicationAll Saints
EventsStruck by lightning 1652
Nave destroyed by fire 1798
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationGrade II*
Designated14 February 1967
Architectural typeChurch
StyleNorman, Perpendicular, Neoclassical
Completed1923
Construction cost£8,000
Specifications
MaterialsTower: red and buff sandstone
Body: brick, tile roof
Administration
ProvinceYork
DioceseChester
ArchdeaconryMacclesfield
DeaneryCongleton
ParishChurch Lawton
Clergy
Rectorin Interregnum
Laity
Reader(s)Margaret Cruxton, Beverlie Boulton

All Saints’ Church stands on a mound close to Lawton Hall in the small village of Church Lawton, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building,[1] and is an Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Congleton.[2]

  1. ^ Historic England. "Church of All Saints, Church Lawton (1161743)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  2. ^ Lawton (or Church Lawton): All Saints, Church Lawton, Church of England, retrieved 14 December 2010