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Christ Church, Macclesfield

...that Christ Church in Macclesfield (pictured) was built by Charles Roe for the Rev. David Simpson, because he had been denied a curacy in another church?
...that the gates of Warrington Town Hall, erected in 1895, had been shown at the 1862 International Exhibition in London?
...that during the English Civil War, Charles I was staying in Gamul House in Chester when his army was defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor?
...that the Round Tower in Sandiway was originally the gate lodge of the great house of Vale Royal Abbey?

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