page_title: Eaton Chapel
section_title: Interior
hierarchical_section_title: Eaton Chapel / Architecture / Interior
caption_attribution_description: English: Eaton Hall stained glass
context_page_description: Eaton Chapel is a private chapel to the north of Eaton Hall in Eaton Park, near the village of Eccleston, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
context_section_description: The narthex at the east end has a groin vaulted oak roof, and is paved with black marble and with encaustic tiles.  A stone screen leads into the nave.  This also has a groin vaulted roof, but built in stone.  Between the nave and the chancel is a low alabaster screen.  A continuation of this screen leads to the pulpit: this is also constructed in alabaster with Devonshire marble columns.  The reredos and the font are also made in alabaster.  The benches in the nave and chancel are in walnut and have carved ends.  In the chancel is a recumbent effigy in alabaster of Constance, 1st Duchess of Westminster, by Joseph Boehm.  For the effigy, Boehm worked from plaster casts of the face and hands taken after her death.
  The stained glass in the windows of the south side of the nave and the apse, and the mosaics in the blank on the north side of the nave were designed by Frederic Shields.  These were commissioned in 1876 and  made by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.  The two-manual organ is in an alcove on the south side of the chancel.  It was built in 1870–71 by Charles Whitley of Chester and is still in good working order.  The clock tower contains a carillon of 28 bells which were cast by Chavalier Severian Van Aerschodt of Louvain; it plays 31 tunes.  The clock was manufactured by Gillet's of Croydon.
caption: The east window
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