It would seem that.......

.......you don't need to go to PARIS to find strange things on churches, you just have to go to the pub for lunch!

 This strange little bod (not so scary as the others Effie?) sits on St Peters church in Swettenham in Cheshire..........which is across the road from the pub.........

 ....you can just see him to the top right of the arched window.

 Then around the corner above this door is......

this weird thing!!! Apparently it is  a sculpture of an ass's head upon the coronet of a marquess which is the crest of the Mainwaring family.......a local family of some distinction!