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Christ Church, Wharton, is in the town of Winsford, Cheshire, England (). It is an active evangelical Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Middlewich. ==History== Christ Church, Wharton, traces its origins to an unconsecrated chapel of ease built c.1835 at the instigation of John Furnival, a curate of Davenham. This was the first Anglican religious building in Wharton, and was built ''to be a challenge to the growth of Methodism in the district''.〔 The chapel was located at Wharton Bridges. Its exact location is unknown, but Wharton Bridges was the original name of the road bridge on Wharton Road, crossing the London and North Western Railway.〔http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithemaps/LargeMap.aspx?srch=&singleplot=&hlt=&hlp=&e=366297.21&n=367381.79&scale=1.27&tabL=L3&tabR=R4〕 When the parish of Wharton was created in 1843, initially as a district of Davenham parish (it was not until 10 March 1860 that Wharton became a separate ecclesiastical parish),〔 the Wharton Bridges chapel was replaced by a new chapel of ease. It was built by James France-France, of Bostock Hall, Bostock, on Crook Lane, at its junction with School Road. The new chapel, called Christ's Church,〔George Ormerod: ''History of the County Palatine and City of Chester'', 2nd edition, Routledge, 1882〕 was consecrated on 26 June 1843 by the Bishop of Chester, John Bird Sumner.〔 A vicarage was built in 1848, formed from two cottages, at a cost of £673 14s.〔 During the 1840s the population of Wharton increased by approximately 27 per cent, from 1,400 persons in 1841 to 1,775 persons in 1851,〔Township Pack series no. 76, ''Wharton'', Cheshire County Council Libraries and Archives, 1997, quoting census data〕 and Christ's Church chapel of ease was soon considered too small for the parish. With money raised from public subscription, including gifts from Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld the Queen Mother (mother of Queen Victoria), John Bird Sumner (the newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury)〔 and grants from the Church Building Societies, the chapel was substantially enlarged with a nave, chancel and bell tower. The old chapel of ease became the north and south transepts of the new building (called Christ Church), which provided seating on benches for 350 persons.〔''Kelly's Directory'', 1939〕 The cost of the rebuilding was £1,574 10s 7d, and the church was consecrated on 20 December 1849 by the Bishop of Chester, John Graham.〔 In 1913 the chancel was extended, and the church was reconsecrated on 18 October 1913 by the Bishop of Chester, Francis Jayne.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christ Church, Wharton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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