Marton Church is only a few minutes drive away from Siddington Church, which I blogged about recently. It is St James’ and St Paul’s Parish Church in Marton, Cheshire. This is a 14th century church, dating back to 1343. There still are some of its original features.
The founders of the church were Sir John and Sir Vivian de Davenport. Their family seat was Capesthorne Hall (I will blog about that place soon). Their descendant, Sir William Bromley-Davenport, is the Patron of the Marton Church. The church retains the original timber frame of the nave. The tower dates to 1540. There are some paintings, as they were before the reformation, which is rather unique that they are still there.
This is one of two effigies of the founders.
This is the painted wall I mentioned above. The churches had intricate painted walls, with scenes from the bible and maybe a figure of the Patron with the Saints. After the reformation the walls were painted white and many of these decorations were lost. It’s quite impressive to see that one survived. These were discovered in 1930, as they spent hundreds of years hidden underneath plaster.
Visit Marton Church at The Vicarage, School Lane, Marton, Macclesfield, SK11 9HD.
There’s a Marton near me, but obviously a different one to this one. What a church. Very interesting.
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What a lovely church. It’s amazing how much of that wood has survived. Do you know the date of the wooden entry arch? How interesting that what was beneath the painted walls is now visible. I cringe when I think how much was lost during the Reformation.
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I’m not sure about the arch, I don’t think I read about it.
The painted walls are very special and rare. I only saw something similar a few times, as most disappeared during the reformation. It was so much destruction at that time, it’s really sad to think about it.
I don’t know much about history but this makes me think of Tudor times. What a beautiful church and how interesting to read about the history of it. x
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The Tudor architecture is really lovely, isn’t it? The tower is Tudor, the rest is before that, but similar nonetheless. xx