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===St Mary and All Saints' Church=== {{main|St Mary and All Saints' Church, Great Budworth}} [[File:St Mary and All Saints Church, Great Budworth exterior.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[St Mary and All Saints Church, Great Budworth|St Mary and All Saints Church]]]] St Mary and All Saints' Church is recorded in the [[National Heritage List for England]] as a designated Grade I [[Listed building#England and Wales|listed building]].<ref name="images2">{{National Heritage List for England |num= 1139156|desc= Church of St Mary and All Saints, Great Budworth|access-date= 26 March 2015}}</ref> It is an active [[Anglican]] [[parish church]] in the [[diocese of Chester]], the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.achurchnearyou.com/great-budworth-st-mary-all-saints/ |title=St Mary & All Saints, Great Budworth |access-date=1 January 2011 |publisher=[[Church of England]]}}</ref> [[Alec Clifton-Taylor|Clifton-Taylor]] includes it in his list of best English parish churches.<ref>{{cite book |last=Clifton-Taylor |first=Alec |author-link=Alec Clifton-Taylor |title=English Parish Churches as Work of Art |publisher=Batsford|year=1974 |page=240 |isbn=0-7134-2776-0}}</ref> Richards describes it as "one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical architecture remaining in Cheshire".<ref name="richards"/> The architectural historian [[Nikolaus Pevsner]] considered it to be "one of the most satisfactory [[Perpendicular Gothic|Perpendicular]] churches in Cheshire".<ref name=pev>{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |last2=Hubbard |first2=Edward |author2-link = Edward Hubbard (architectural historian) |series=The Buildings of England |title=Cheshire |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=2003| orig-year=1971 |pages=227β228 |isbn=0-300-09588-0}}</ref> In the north chapel is a memorial to [[Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet|Sir Peter Leicester]], the 17th-century historian, and in the Warburton Chapel is the [[alabaster]] [[effigy]] of Sir John Warburton who died in 1575.<ref name="richards">{{cite book |last=Richards |first=Raymond |title=Old Cheshire Churches |publisher=Batsford |year=1947 |pages=170β175}}</ref> In the north chapel is an organ designed by [[Samuel Renn]], installed in 1839.
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