Overchurch

Ellis (1902) mentions Overchurch as one of the Hundred of Wirral churches without a medieval font. Though not clear, it appears to refer to the Norman or pre-Conquest church here. Browne (1890) writes about a Runic stone found in what had been "an unsightly little church built at Upton, near Birkenhead, in 1813, out of the materials of the old church of Overchurch, which fell into ruin about that time. This little church was pulled down in 1887". Dallow (1890) gives more information about the old church: "The old church of Overchurch stood two miles from the Leasowe embankment, midway between the villages of Upton and Moreton [...] Here a church is supposed to have been in existence at the time of the Norman Conquest [...] In Mortimer's Hundred of Wirral it is described as 'having had pointed arches of peculiar elegance, richly decorated with chevrons and Saxon mouldings' [...] In 1709, the steeple became injured [...] In 1813, the church fell down [...] our oldest villager informs me that it had benches for about one hundred and fifty [...] and was served monthly by a clergyman from Wallasey."