User:Peter I. Vardy/DYK/Archive 2


 * ...that after the Chester Town Hall (pictured) was officially opened in 1869 in Chester, England to replace an earlier building burnt down in 1862, another fire destroyed the council chamber in 1897?
 * ...that when Chester Cathedral (pictured) was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 19th century, its exterior was almost completely recased in Runcorn sandstone?
 * ...that although Peckforton Castle in Cheshire was built as a family home in 1850, it mimicked a Norman castle in design and position?
 * ...that much of medieval Chester Castle (pictured) was rebuilt in neoclassical style by architect Thomas Harrison around 1800?
 * ...that St John the Evangelist's Church in the village of Sandiway, Cheshire, was designed by John Douglas who had been born in the village and who was lord of the manor of Sandiway?
 * ...that Oakmere Hall in Cheshire was built for John and Thomas Johnson of Runcorn but they became bankrupt before it was completed and the house was sold to a Liverpool merchant?
 * ...that, buried in the porch of St Alkmund's Church, Whitchurch (pictured), is the heart of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who was killed at the Battle of Castillon in 1453?
 * ...that the creation of Grosvenor Museum, Chester (pictured) was inspired by a society formed by Charles Kingsley, who was at that time a canon of Chester Cathedral?
 * ...that the Church of St James the Great, Haydock, Merseyside was built with timber framing because its flexibility would provide greater protection against possible mining subsidence?
 * ...that when Catalyst museum (pictured) in Widnes, Cheshire was opened in 1989, it was the world's first museum devoted to the chemicals industry?


 * ...that Ince Manor and Saighton Grange Gatehouse are the only two surviving monastic manorial buildings in Cheshire, UK?
 * ...that Chorley Old Hall, the oldest inhabited country house in Cheshire, consists of two ranges, one medieval (c.1300) (pictured), the other Elizabethan (mid-16th century)?
 * ...that while Peover Hall in Cheshire, England (pictured), is a Grade II* listed building, its stable block is listed Grade I because of its elaborate internal architecture?
 * ...that the gates (pictured) of Warrington Town Hall, Cheshire, erected in 1895, had been shown at the 1862 International Exhibition in London?
 * ... that Runcorn Town Hall (pictured) was originally built as Halton Grange, a mansion for Thomas Johnson, a local soap and alkali manufacturer?
 * ... that in Grosvenor Park, in the city of Chester, is an archway which had been in the city's St Michael's Church?
 * ... that in St Peter's Church, Heysham, Lancashire, is a Viking hogback stone, and in the churchyard is the base of an Anglo-Saxon cross (pictured)?
 * ... that in Holy Trinity Church, Warrington, is a brass chandelier which formerly hung in St Stephen's Chapel in the British House of Commons?
 * ... that the excavation at Norton Priory, Cheshire, in the 1970s revealed the largest floor of mosaic tiles to be found in any modern excavation?
 * ... that the Port of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, was an independent customs port for two separate periods before becoming part of the Port of Manchester in 1894? - Joint nomination with WikiProject Greater Manchester.
 * ... that Bridgewater House, Runcorn, Cheshire, was built for the Duke of Bridgewater when he was supervising the building of the Bridgewater Canal in the 1760s, and is now used as offices?
 * ... that the 13th Earl of Derby established a private menagerie in the 19th century in the grounds of Knowsley Hall in Merseyside, where the 18th Earl opened a public safari park in the 20th century?
 * ... that in Tatton Hall, Cheshire, (pictured) are ten full-length portraits of the Cheshire gentlemen who met in 1715 and decided to support King George I rather than James Stuart in the first Jacobite rebellion?
 * ...that Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, an architect from Shrewsbury, England, designed the first iron bridge in the world (pictured)?