Peplow Hall

Hill experienced financial difficulties and in 1873 sold the estate to wealthy industrialist, coal owner and ironmaster Francis Stanier.

He also kept a collection of stuffed animals at the estate, which included crocodiles and leopards.

From about 1945 until 1963 the property was owned by Neville Howard Rollason, a director of the steelmaker John Summers and Sons at Shotton, and after his death it was sold to William B Higgin, son of a Liverpool cotton merchant who had been High Sheriff of Cheshire.

Francis Stanier commissioned the chapel in 1877, with it being designed by Richard Norman Shaw.

[5] For the next 74 years the chapel remained part of the Stanier family's property, when in 1951 it was passed to the Diocese of Lichfield.