{250b} Such as Chorley Hall, Little Moreton Hall, and Moat Hall, and the site of Alderley Hall; the latter was burned down in 1779, and all vestiges of the walls of the mansion are gone. {253a} The paper upon the old church of Wilmslow was read by the author in person, before a meeting of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, on the 3rd of May, 1849, and the thanks of the meeting were voted for it to him. {255a} At present they are not all perfect. {255b} The piscine is very rarely found on the north side of any church or chapel. {256} As the ancient family of Handford, of Handford, in the adjoining pariah of Cheadle, bore the etoile or star in their arms, it might be inferred that the ornament had been introduced from that circumstance, if the stars had been painted on shields (like armorial bearings); but that is not the case; as they are painted on circular ornaments. {257a} Now nearly hidden from view by a quantity of ivy, which has carelessly been suffered to grow over it. {257b} I seldom see such an example of bad taste, without thinking of a passage, written in some work of imagination (it may be one of Goldsmith’s, for ought I know), which I read when a boy, mentioning an inscription by churchwardens, to the following effect, “Repaired and beautified by Samuel Smear and Daniel Daub, churchwardens.” {258} Why should we not here notice the grave of a brave man, a native of Styal, in the parish of Wilmslow, who did honour to Cheshire and to his regiment? In the churchyard, near the south side of the chancel is a raised tomb, to the memory of Captain John Worrell, son of Henry and Mary Worrell, of Styal. The following is a copy of the principal part of it:— “who departed this life, September 28th, 1760, aged 77. He served 50 years in his Majestie’s regiment of Carbineers, and carried and brought off, with honour, the standard, at the memorable battle of Malplaquet. His gallant behaviour as a soldier, and his private virtue as a member of society, gained him the esteem of every brave and honest man.” {259a} Ormerod’s _Cheshire_, vol. iii. p. 311. {259b} “Henry Trafford, D.D., built the chancel, 1522; made the tomb north of the communion rails. He was a younger brother of the Traffords, of Trafford.”—_Parl. Reg._; see Ormerod’s _Cheshire_, vol. iii. p. 311 (note _p_). Is it possible that we are intended, by the above passage, to understand that he made the tomb on the north side of the communion rails, in anticipation of his own death? {261} A portion of a large pillar at the head of the tomb, appears to have been cut away, as if to admit of part of it being placed there. {262a} Lysons’ _Cheshire_, p. 451. {262b} By his death, since this paper was read, the advowson now belongs to his son, Sir Humphrey De Trafford, Bart. {263a} He died in 1856, having, not long before his death, sold the estate. {263b} Ormerod’s _Cheshire_, vol. iii. p. 311 (note).