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Described by Pevsner as ‘one of the most exciting Cheshire churches’ with plenty of bosses and also some dainty openwork pendants’.

The church was built in 1855-56 as a chapel of ease to serve the miners of Thomas North’s colliery at Babbington.

A church building dedicated to local Saint Tysul, who was related to St David, and after whom the town Llandysul is named; Llan means 'church of' or 'sacred place'.

Robert de Basford or de Ashby founded a Cistercian priory at Catesby in c1175 and endowed it partly with income from Basford, it is one of only four churches in England dedicated to St Leodegarius.

The interior of the church is 13th century at its best, with a wooden roof in imitation of stone vaulting and one of the best collections of Green Men in England.

This beautiful church has been hallowed by prayers of the faithful for nearly 700 years and has many historic, beautiful and interesting features to discover.

The ruins of St Mary’s stand on a low rise nearly a kilometre north east of the village of Colston Bassett.