Netherton nr. Sefton

INFORMATION

FontID: 19299NET
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Bennet [RC; redundant since 1975]
Church Patron Saints: St. Benedict [aka Benet]?
Church Location: Chapel Lane, Netherton, Merseyside, L30 7PE
Country Name: England
Location: Merseyside, North West
Directions to Site: Formerly a hamlet of Sefton, now in its Metropolitan Borough, just S of the A5207 [aka Nortern Perimeter Rd.]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Liverpool
Historical Region: formerly Lancashire
Century and Period: 17th century(late?),
Church Notes: the original pre-1792 chapel appears to have been just a cottage-cum-barn used bu the Benedictine priests there
No individual entry found for this Netherton in the Domesday survey. The VCH entries (Lancaster vol. 3, 1907) for both Netherton and Sefton report the former as a hamlet of the latter, and the only church in Netherton was a Catholic chapel: "After the Reformation there are no records of the existence of the Roman Catholic worship in the township until the middle of the seventeenth century, when a chapel in the old hall was served by Benedictines or Carmelites down to 1792. In this year Dom Vincent Gregson, who had been there for nearly forty years, persuaded the earl of Sefton to grant him land at Netherton for a chapel and presbytery; the chapel, St. Bennet's, was opened in the following year, and is still served by a Benedictine father." [NB: there is no indication as to whether a font existed in that chapel]. -- Ince-Blundell, Great Crosby, Litherland, Little Crosby and other such places with strong RC ties in the area, may have had the same situation as Netherton vis-a-vis baptisms.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.4946, -2.9678
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 29′ 40.56″ N, 2° 58′ 4.08″ W
UTM: 30U 502136 5927293