St Lawrence Church, Rushton Spencer

The church of Saint Lawrence Rushton Spencer (situated on the border of East Cheshire and Staffordshire).

It has an early thirteenth century timber frame housed inside a much later seventeenth century stone building. The wooden tower known as the Chapel in the wilderness is a later addition. 

A church has occupied this remote site since 1206. The East window is dated 1690 while the west door is dated 1713.

Story are told of a boy who perhaps had an affair with his bosses daughter (or wife) died in suspicious circumstances and possibly was buried alive, once the body had been exhumed for examination he was reburied here in the churchyard.