Minshull Vernon United Reformed Church

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Minshull Vernon United Reformed Church is on Cross Lane, Minshull Vernon, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

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Minshull Vernon

Minshull Vernon is a hamlet and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The hamlet lies 3 miles to the north west of Crewe, south east of Winsford and south west of Middlewich. The parish also includes the small settlements of Bradfield Green, Eardswick, Hoolgrave, Minshull Hill, Walley's Green and Weaver Bank. The total population of the civil parish is somewhat over 200, measured at 391 in the Census 2011. Nearby villages include Church Minshull, Warmingham and Wimboldsley. The River Weaver and the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal run through the area.

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Church Minshull

Church Minshull is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is approximately 5 miles north west of Crewe, just west of the River Weaver and Shropshire Union Canal. The principal road through Church Minshull is the B5074 between Nantwich and Winsford. The modern village centre is a designated conservation area which contains many houses of Tudor style architecture. A large area in the east of the parish falls within the Weaver Valley Area of Special County Value. The population at the 2001 Census was 431, living in 196 residences of which sixty are on Home Farm Park and twenty on Village Farm. The parish is made up of 2,285 acres. The population at the 2011 Census had reduced slightly to 426.

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St Bartholomew's Church, Church Minshull

St Bartholomew's Church is in the village of Church Minshull, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the deanery of Nantwich. Its benefice is combined with those of St Mary, Acton, St David, Wettenhall, and St Oswald, Worleston.

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St Peter's Church, Minshull Vernon

St Peter's Church is in Middlewich Road, Minshull Vernon, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Nantwich, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester. Its benefice is combined with that of St Leonard, Warmingham. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It was a Commissioners' church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.

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Minshull Vernon railway station

Minshull Vernon railway station was a station on the Grand Junction Railway serving the villages of Warmington and Minshull Vernon. It opened on 4 July 1837 when the line opened. Wishaw describes the intermediate stations on the line, such as this one, as "built in the cottage style, and without any pretensions to studied design". The station is located on the south side of Nantwich Road which is now the A530. The road crossed the railway on an over-bridge, with steps down to each platform. The main station building appears to be on the up platform, to the east of the lines. In the early years the station had two mixed trains in each direction. Times changed from year to year. By 1850 an additional morning train to Liverpool had been added. The station was awarded a "Special Class" prize of £10 in the LMS station garden competition of 1925. By 1939 the lines through the station had been quadrupled with the fast lines in the centre and the slow lines on the outside. Platforms were only provided on the outside of the slow lines. The station closed in 1942. The station buildings were demolished in the 1960s.

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History

The building was originally a Congregational church constructed in 1809. In 1884 the interior of the church was improved and heating was installed at a cost of nearly £470 (equivalent to £62,000 in 2023). The church was further renovated in 1906, electricity was installed in 1946, and a water supply was connected and a kitchen added in 1975.

Architecture

Constructed in brick, the church has a tiled roof. It is in four bays with a porch. On the sides of the church are two-light mullioned windows. On the north side is one original window containing Y-tracery. On the gables are ball finials. Inside the church a dado rail separates pine wainscotting below from the plastered walls above. At the east end of the church is an organ, in front of which is a U-shaped communion rail.