St Mary's and St Helen's Church, Neston

The presence of a priest at Neston is recorded in the Domesday Book. The earliest written evidence of a church on the site dates from around 1170 when a church was founded by Ralph de Montalt, a baron of the court of the Earl of Chester. It is likely that an earlier church was on the site because when the floor was being relaid during the 19th century, fragments of pre-Conquest crosses were found. These were later shown to be "hiberno Norse" or Viking Age in origin. A further fragment was discovered in the church's belfry in the 1980s. These fragments are now mounted at the west end of the church. in Early English style.

The font dates from the 16th century; it is octagonal with quatrefoiled panels. This is the font in which Lady Hamilton was baptised as Emy Lyon on 12 May 1765. The only specifically designed memorial within the church is a carved stone in memory of a 14th-century priest. and made by Morris & Co.; others are by Kempe. The three-manual organ was built in 1900 by Forster and Andrews. There is a ring of eight bells. Four of these are by Rudhall of Gloucester dated 1731; the other four are by Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry and are dated 1884. The parish registers begin in 1559 and record the baptism in the church in 1761 of Emma Lyon, who was later to become Lady Hamilton.…