[5] The church was originally a chapel of ease to St Mary and All Saints, Great Budworth and the area was then known as Witton.

It was roughly the same length as the current building, had transepts but no aisles, side chapels or clerestory, and was covered by a steeply-pitched roof rising from about the height of the present arcade.

The tower was built or rebuilt in about 1498, and the name ‘Thomas Hunter’ prominently displayed on it indicates it was the work of the mason of that name who was also associated with nearby Norton Priory.

Probably at this time the present roof over the nave was installed, though there is debate as to whether it was commissioned for the church originally.

The chancel was embattled soon after 1624, when Thomas Farmer, the master of Witton Grammar School, left money for the purpose in his will.

(Previously the only entrances had been that via the porch to the south and a small door giving access from outside to the tower steps).

[14][15] Other work done at much the same period included the addition of an altar rail, a new pulpit and the re-flooring of the whole church.

Although there have since been further changes to the interior (including the addition of screens at the east end of the aisles and new coloured glass windows), by the 1890s the church looked much as it does today.

It formally became a parish church when "the District Chapelry of St Helen Witton, otherwise Northwich", came into being on 7 August 1900.

[28] An upper portion of a floriate medieval gravestone removed during 19th-century renovations lies near the south porch.

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