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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Breretons</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cheshire</strong><br />
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Copyright © B. F. Brereton-Goodwin 2001 (brereton.faye@gmail.com) January 2013 (website edition)<br />
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At one time there were at least six altars, four connected with chantries 65 . <strong>The</strong>se included the high altar, the rood<br />
altar (placed within the l<strong>of</strong>t) and the altars <strong>of</strong> the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Katherine, St. George and St. Nicholas.<br />
Two chantries remain; the Cholmondeley Chapel in the north aisle, and the Brereton Chapel in the south aisle.<br />
Sir Randal Brereton specified in his will, dated 1530, that he should be buried in the Lady Chapel (which given<br />
the location <strong>of</strong> the tomb we can assume is on the south side). How the various altars were placed is not known.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are two piscina 66 on the south wall <strong>of</strong> the Brereton Chapel, where one would have been sufficient. This<br />
may indicate a subdivision <strong>of</strong> some kind.<br />
65 Chantry is the English term for a fund established to pay for a priest to celebrate sung masses for a specified purpose, generally for the<br />
soul <strong>of</strong> the deceased donor. Chantries were endowed with lands given by donors, the income from which maintained the chantry priest.<br />
66 A piscina is a shallow basin placed near the altar <strong>of</strong> a church, used for washing the communion vessels
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