St Mary the Virgin. Eccleston, Cheshire
St Mary's Church as it appears today is a red sandstone building which dates from the 19th century. It was built between 1897 and 1899 to a design by G. F. Bodley for the 1st Duke of Westminster at a cost of £40,000 (£4.06 million today). The new church was consecrated on Ascension Day 1900. The present building is the third parish church to have been built in Eccleston. It stands some 100 metres southwest of the site occupied by its predecessors, which stood in what is known today as the Old Churchyard.
Wall memorial to the 2nd Duke of Westminster.
Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, GCVO DSO (familiarly "Bendor") (19 March 1879 – 19 July 1953) was a British landowner and one of the wealthiest men in the world.
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