St Mary's Church, Nantwich [Map]
Around 1340 the building of the current St Mary's Church, Nantwich [Map] was commenced in the Decorated Style. Interrupted by the Balck Death the building was completed in the Perpendiucalr Style around 1400.
Around 1384. St Mary's Church, Nantwich [Map]. Alabaster monument to David Craddock, Mayor of Bordeaux, Justicar of Wales and a money-lender to Richard II, found buried under the chancel floor during the 19th-century restoration.
After 21 Dec 1614. St Mary's Church, Nantwich [Map]. Monument to Thomas Smith of Hough in Cheshire commissioned by his wife Anne Brereton. The monument was originally in St Chad's Church, Wybunbury [Map] but moved to Nantwich in 1982.Jacobean Period.
Thomas Smith of Hough in Cheshire: Around 1545 he was born to Lawrence Smith and Anne Fouleshurst. On 21 Jan 1561 he and Anne Brereton were married. On 21 Jun 1614 he died.
Anne Brereton: In Dec 1546 she was born to William Brereton and Jane Warburton. After 1614 Anne Brereton died.
After 1807. St Mary's Church, Nantwich [Map]. Monuments to William Sprout, Edward Vincent Bayley, Roger Wilbraham and others.