. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. erly, was a sound board; and below, the ministers seat, where prayerswere read; and still lower, the clerks seat and churching pew, where most marriages * Well known examples occur at St. Peters at Rome; Ratisbon, Norwich, Peterborough, Lincoln and YorkCathedrals; at St. Marys, Oxford, &c. t The Rev. T. W. Norwood says that tvimples and wave-mouldings charadlerize the whole strufture and serveto fix the date of the Church, which is middle and latish Decorated work, with nothing earlier. Certain
. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. erly, was a sound board; and below, the ministers seat, where prayerswere read; and still lower, the clerks seat and churching pew, where most marriages * Well known examples occur at St. Peters at Rome; Ratisbon, Norwich, Peterborough, Lincoln and YorkCathedrals; at St. Marys, Oxford, &c. t The Rev. T. W. Norwood says that tvimples and wave-mouldings charadlerize the whole strufture and serveto fix the date of the Church, which is middle and latish Decorated work, with nothing earlier. Certain details, {e. g. pointed bowtells in the Lady Chapel; under-cut abaci in the Nave piers; stiff leaved foliage on the West Towerarch; and concave base mouldings in the same arch) which at first sight seem earlier, being associated with later forms,can only be regarded as survivals of earlier forms, rather than indications of earlier work. J The Leiftern was the gift, by will, of the late Mrs. Mary Evans (nee Cappur) of Hospital Street, widow. It wasplaced in the Church on Christmas Eve, THE CHURCH. 331 were solemnized. Humorously spoken of as the three-decker, and after having been affixedto the second pillar on the north side of the nave for two hundred and twenty-two years,(see page 130), it was destroyed at the restoration of the Church; except the topstory, which was placed in its present position, beside the north-west tower pier. An oakchest with initial and date, (W. 1676) upon which the weekly dole bread (ninety loaves)is placed, was given by a parishioner, Thomas Cawley, Esq., about forty years ago. Onthe east wall of the nave is some seventeenth century decorative painting, representing aCross in a circle, with ; and on either side tables of the Law. Below is the verse: He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me; and hethat loveth Me, shall be loved of my Father. Round the arch are these words; whichare, however, incorrectly quot
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