effected have not always been done in the most judicious manner or in the best taste. It is an oblong structure with two gables projecting from the principal front, one of them forming the porch or main entrance, and this constitutes one of the principal features of the exterior. The sideposts and the lintel of the wide open doorway are elaborately carved, and on the transverse beam above is the following inscription in old English characters:-- This haulle was buylded in the yeare of oure Lord God mccccclxii by Uryan Breretonn Knight whom maryed Margaret daughter and heyre of Wyllyam handforth of Handforthe Esquyer and had Issue vi sonnes and ii daughters. The inner mouldings of the sideposts are enriched with the running figure of the stem and foliage of the briar, similar to that carved on the screen in Cheadle Church, and the same ornament is continued along the under side of the lintel, with the addition of a tun in the centre, and the initials V and B placed one at each angle. The outer face of each sidepost had an arabesque ornament carved in low relief, the one on the left terminating in a shield of arms now so much worn by exposure to the weather as to be scarcely decipherable, though in its perfect state it represented the coat of Brereton impaling Honford or Handforth--the sinister half, quarterly, first and fourth, _argent_ two bars _sable_, on the upper bar a crescent of the first, between the bars a cross fleury _gules_, charged with five bezants for Brereton; second and third, _argent_ a chevron between three crescents _gules_ for Ipstones. On the dexter half, quarterly, first and fourth, _sable_ an estoile _argent_ for Honford; second and third _gules_, a scythe _argent_ for Praers. On the sidepost on the right of the doorway the carved ornamentation terminates in the Brereton crest--a bear's head erased ppr., muzzled _or_, on the neck a cross patée for difference.