St Mary and St Nicholas, Nantwich, Church of England

The church has/had a graveyard.

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It was founded in 1539.

Church History

An ancient parish church, originally serving the townships of Alvaston, Leighton, Nantwich and Woolstanwood, and part of the township of Willaston. It included the chapels of Barony: All Saints, and Hack Green: St. Michael. 

The district was affected by the following boundary changes: 

• 1840 — redjuced when the township of Leighton was transferred to Leighton cum Minshull Vernon: St. Peter. 
• 1927 July 5 — enlarged when the following area was transferred from Wybunbury: St. Chad: "A portion of the Parish of the said Benefice of Wybunbury, that is to say so much of the said Parish as is bounded upon the east by the Parish of the Benefice of Wistaston, in the said County and Diocese, upon the north and upon the west by the Parish of the said Benefice of Nantwich and upon the south by an imaginary line following the middle of the Crewe and Shrewsbury Branch Line of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (formerly the London and
  North Western Railway)". 
• 1930 April 1 — enlarged when the civil parishes of Austerson, Baddington, and Coole Pilate were transferred from Acton: St. Mary. 
• 1951 August 10 — reduced when an area was transferred to Crewe: St. Barnabas. 

 

Church Records

C = Christenings (Baptisms) ; M = Marriages ; B = Burials ; BTs = Bishop's Transcripts 

Original Registers	C 1539-1944 ; M 1576-1949 ; B 1573-1943 — Cheshire Archives (P 120) C from 1944 ; M from 1949 — Church
Microfilm Copies	C 1539-1917 ; M 1576-1949 ; B 1573-1943 — Cheshire Archives C 1539-1917 ; M 1572-1902 ; B 1572-1893 — Family History Society of Cheshire C 1539-1917 ; M 1576-1902 ; B 1573-1923 — Nantwich Library
Bishop's Transcripts	1596, 1602-03, 1605, 1607-11, 1613-14, 1617-18, 1620, 1622, 1624, 1626-30, 1632-33, 1636-39, 1658-85, 1687-1724, 1727-39, 1741-1768, 1770-1894 (microfilmed) — Cheshire Archives
Copies and Indexes	CMB 1539-1871 — Cheshire Parish Register Project CMB 1539-1812 (transcript, 11 vols.) — Cheshire Archives ; Nantwich Library C 1741-1762 ; M 1741-1756 ; B 1841-1760 (transcripts) — Church library M 1700-1765, 1800-1837 (incomplete) — Bertram Merrell Marriage Index of Cheshire (1750-1836) M 1754-1837 — North & East Cheshire Marriage Index - may be viewable at subscription sites such as ancestry or findmypast M 1837-1974 — Cheshire BMD (CC:1066)
Monumental Inscriptions	Transcript and index, 1934 — Cheshire Archives

It is located at SJ6516052267 (Lat/Lon 53.066501, -2.521386). You can see this on maps provided by:

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