Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/37

...that the apparent timber framing of St John's Church, High Legh (pictured) is "a sham"?
...that the rose garden at Lymm Hall was Edward Kemp's first recorded commission?
...that the architect John Douglas built Walmoor Hill in Chester as a house for himself, and since his death it has been used as a girls' college and as the County Fire Headquarters?
...that when Sir Thomas Grosvenor became baronet, he was aged eight, and when he married at the age of 21, his wife was aged 12?

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