Under the altar is an under-ground chapel or sacristy, which at one time was unworthily used as a charnel-house, and when I visited it, in January, 1849, it was a place of deposit for bricks and rubbish; I am glad to hear that they have since been removed. With some difficulty I entered it from the churchyard, by an opening which exists under the large altar window. It is not vaulted with stone, as might have been expected, but the wooden floor near the altar forms its roof. Three recesses, resembling sedilia, in the Gothic style, and which, if they had been discovered near an altar, would be at once pronounced to be sedilia, are formed in the wall in front of the opening, and the centre one has an inclined groove on each side, cut into the stone, which rather conveys the impression as if a temporary desk, for reading, had formerly been sometimes fixed up there. It is lighted by loopholes, opening into the churchyard; and on the south side is a narrow winding staircase, of which many of the steps remain, which at one time gave access from the altar to it, but the communication is now built up. The steps in it commence under a plain Gothic arch, and the staircase was lighted by a loophole, which still remains. The following is a list of the names of the various Rectors of Wilmslow, from 1339:—{259a} Hugo Fitton. 1339—2nd September Thomas de Chatterton. Thomas Ffrost. 1412—28th April Galfridus Boseley. Willielmus de Bothe. 1418—26th Julii Georgius Radcliffe. Galfridus Boseley. 1419—11th September Georgius Radcliffe. 1425—20th October Ricardus Radcliffe. 1456— Radulphus Davenport. 1500—13th February Robertus Broke. 1522—_Ante_ Henry Trafford, D.D. {259b} 1537—_Circa_ Henry Ryle. 1542— Henry Trafford. 1591—30th September William Massie, B.D. 1610—27th August Thomas Wright. 1654—12th December, _ante_ John Brereton. 1660— Thomas Wright. 1661—28th November Peter Ledsham. 1673—16th February Francis Mosley. 1699—24th August John Usherwood, A.M. 1705—9th December Joshua Wakefield. 1718—21st November Henry Moore, D.D. 1770—4th March Edward Berresford, A.M. 1787—16th April Croxton Johnson, LL.B. 1814—28th March Joseph Bradshaw, A.M. The Rev. John Matthias Turner, D.D., afterwards Bishop of Calcutta, succeeded to the rectory about 1823, an interval having elapsed subsequent to the death of Mr. Bradshaw, about 1820, during which the living was in sequestration. The present rector is the Rev. William Brownlow, M.A., who succeeded the Rev. Dr. Turner, in 1829.