All Saints Church, Thelwall

All Saints Church stands in the village of Thelwall, Cheshire, on land once part of the parish of Runcorn. The building is made of sandstone with steeply pitched slate roofs and has a nave of six bays, a chancel of two bays, a north aisle and a west porch. A single bell hangs in a west bellcote above the entrance. The churchyard contains war graves of three soldiers from the First World War. The church began as a chapel restored in 1663 by Robert Pickering, though a legal suit that year suggests an earlier building stood on the site. In 1843 a new nave designed by James Mountford Allen replaced the old chapel after it became too small. The chancel was added in 1856 at the expense of James Nicholson, and in 1890 Henry Stanton commissioned a north aisle, baptistry and vestry designed by William Owen. Inside, the chancel floor is laid with marble and coloured glazed tiles. A memorial to Edward the Elder, who founded Thelwall in 923, was carved by Eric Gill in 1907. The organ, originally built by Gray and Davidson around 1884 and rebuilt by Jardine in 1964, now uses a solid-state control system installed in 2005. Plaster angels separate two marble panels of Biblical scenes on the reredos.