Stretton, Cheshire Genealogy

There are two villages called Stretton in Cheshire, the village near Malpas lies in Tilston parish

History
Stretton St Matthew's near Runcorn is an ecclesiatical parish formerly a chapel of ease to Budworth Built in 1827 as a chapel to Great Budworth, created a separate parish in 1834 to serve Stretton and part of Appleton.

From the reign of Henry II, the village of Stretton was owned by the Starkey family and it is likely that a chapel was built for the family during the 13th or 14th century. In a will dated 1527 the chapel is referred to as the Oratory of St Saviour. In Leycester's history of Cheshire it is stated that in 1666 the "ancient chapel of Stretton" was "ruinous and in decay". In 1826–27 a Commissioners' Church was built as a chapel of ease to Great Budworth. In 1859 Richard Greenall, vicar and Archdeacon of Chester, commissioned George Gilbert Scott to build a chancel, which he did. Richard Greenall died suddenly in 1867 and following this the rest of the church was rebuilt as a memorial to him.