[32a] This Church contains some noteworthy frescoes and other mural decorations, the work of the Rev. John Troughton, sometime curate in charge.
[32b] A wag is said to have scratched on the stump of a tree at Hawarden the following couplet:
“No matter whether oak or birch—
They all go like the Irish Church.”
[33a] Μητι τοι δρυτομος μεy’ αμεινων ηε Βιηφι.
Homer. Iliad xxili. 315
“By skill far more than strength the woodman fells
The sturdy oak.”
Ld. Derby’s Translation
[34] 1889-1890.
[35a] Buckley Church, towards which a grant of £4000 was made by the Commissioners for Church building, was designed by Mr. John Gates of Halifax, and holds 740 persons. The first stone was laid by the youthful hands of Sir S. R. Glynne and his Brother Henry, afterwards Rector, and the Consecration was performed nine months afterwards, by the Bishop of Chester, Dr. Gardiner, Prebendary of Lichfield, preaching the Sermon. The Schools and Parsonage had been previously erected by the exertions of the Hon. and Rev. George Neville Grenville (afterwards Dean of Windsor), at a cost of about £2000.
[35b] Much improved by the recent addition of a Chancel, the gift of W. Johnson, Esq., of Broughton Hall.
[35c] Built by Sir S. R. Glynne: Vicarage and Schools by Lady Glynne.