274 CHR18TLBTOX. CHE5HIRE. [KELLY'S

• damaged by the Royalist garrison of ip. 1645, I COTTON ABBOTS, or , is a small and restored in 1678: in 1 877 it was heightened, and township, 2 miles south-east-by-east from the church ·contains a clock and 8 bells: the rest of the church and 4 miles south-east from Chester, in the union of was rebuilt of brick in 1738, and again rebuilt in . The manor was given by one of the Fib.hugh 18]6-7, of red sandstone, from designs by Mr. W. I family, barons of Malpas, to the abbey of ·St. WerbUTgh, Butterfield, architect. The pulpit, of oak and walnut, 1 at Chester; it is now the property of the Duke of West­ on a base of polished Devonshire marble, and designed minster G.C.V.O. who is the sole landowner. The area by Mr. Butterfield, was presented in 1877 by Mrs. lnce, is 292 acres; rateable value, £467; population in 1gu, of Hall, in memory of her husband, n. T~wnsen~ Ince e.s