century which, according to Clare Hartwell, "add a touch of sophistication". There are large round-headed pairs of arched windows with Y-tracery, (possibly added later) and plain architraves. There are three such windows on the north side and four on the south side with more round-headed windows in the apse. Interior and fittings Internally, the nave measures by , the chancel (including apse) measures by and the tower measures by . The ceiling of the church has shallow ribbed vaulting. There are galleries to the north, west and south, accessed by a Georgian staircase in the north-west that has turned balusters. The north and south galleries are supported by plain Tuscan columns and both contain box pews that date from 1752. Stained glass dates from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century and includes work by Lancaster designers Shrigley and Hunt. The pulpit was constructed in 1955 in the Jacobean style from the four sides of a 17th-century pulpit. It has arabesques and a portion of an inscription from the Book of Isaiah. In the south-west corner of the nave is a choir vestry, which was originally built as a baptistery. Its screen is made of carved oak, formed in 1883 from one part of the Fleetwood family box pew that was originally situated in the chancel where the choir stalls now sit. In 1883, this pew had been described as "looking like a cross between a railway carriage and the centre piece of a gondola". The wood is carved with emblems of the family including a double-headed eagle, wheat sheaves and a griffin. The screen door comes from the box pew of another prominent local family—the Rigbys of Layton. It has a carving of a goat's head and is inscribed with "AR 1636". Six hatchments hang in St Chad's in memory of 18th century members of the Hesketh-Fleetwood family. These hatchments are diamond-shaped representations of individual coats of arms, painted for their funeral processions and then hung in the parish church. There is a ring of eight bells hung in an iron frame in the tower; they are rung from the ground floor of the tower. Five of the bells were cast in 1741 by Abel Rudhall of Gloucester. They were rehung in 1908. The sixth bell was recast in 1865 by Mears and Co. of London. In 1919, the church bells were still customarily rung to signal the