Arley chapel appears just once in the ecclesiastical records, at Frewen's 1662 Visitation, when the records of a curate's licence and his presence at the time of the visitation are recorded. However, its status is uncertain, and this would seem to be the only time when it is regarded as other than a domestic chapel for the Warburtons of Arley. Gastrell (Notitia Cestrienses, I, 318) merely notes that, 'Arley Chap[el] belongs to the Fam[ily] of Warburton of Arley'. Ormerod, Cheshire, I.ii, 613, quotes Sir Peter Leycester (1673), who notes that Arley Hall (Aston juxta Great Budworth township) is the chief mansion of the Warburton family, 'wherein of late a ground room hath been converted into a chappel'. So what we have in the 1662 register of orders are references to a chapel which appears as possessing a curate then, but disappears from the record and realistically was probably a domestic chapel for all or most of our period. 1660 has been taken as latest possible creation date in light of Leycester's 'of late' and the 1661 licence.