Wybunbury history
 
THE LEANING TOWER. The tower that belonged to St Chad's church, now called the "Leaning Tower of Wybunbury", is a local attraction for all to visit and, on certain days of the year, to climb and look out onto the Cheshire countryside.
  WYBUNBURY HISTORY OUTLINES ILLUSTRATIONS
  Once attached to St Chad's Church Wybunbury leaning tower
   

The tower is now the oldest building in the village. It was part of a church built in the late 15th Century on the site of an earlier one... There are no records relating to the tower's construction but permission would have been needed from the king. The land was owned by the Church.

There have been many churches on this elevated site but only the tower remains. Its tendency to lean has earned it the title the "Leaning Tower of South Cheshire" or in earlier days the "Hanging Steeple of Wimberie".

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  Wybunbury Tower Opens Wybunbury Tower opens
   

A man who was the driving force behind the straightening of the Leaning Tower of Pisa was guest-of-honour at an open weekend to mark the official reopening of Wybunbury's famous leaning church tower.

Professor John Burland, who was instrumental in persuading the authorities that the Pisa tower could be straightened using the same under-excavation method as first used at Wybunbury in 1832, attended the ceremony along with Professor Efrain Shelley, who carried out similar work on the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City, and archaeological historian Glynis Johnston.

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  Wybunbury and Pisa pisa lean
    The leaning tower of Pisa will be straightened using the same technique that was employed on Wybunbury tower when it was first straightened.
           
           
  John Burland John Burland
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