Skelmersdale / Kermersdale / Scalmardale / Schelmeresdele / Skelmardesdale / Skelmaresdale / Skelmersdale

INFORMATION

FontID: 19353SKE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Paul
Church Location: Church Road, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, WN8 8ND
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the M58, 10 km W of Wigan, 20 NE of Liverpool
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Liverpool
Historical Region: Hundred of West Derby
Church Notes: chapel built 1776 as chapel-of-ease to Ormskirk
There is an entry for Skelmersdale [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SD4606/skelmersdale/] [accessed 14 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. The VCH (Lancaster, vol. 3, 1907) notes: "The Commonwealth surveyors in 1650 stated that a chapel had formerly existed in this place, but nothing further seems to be known of it. They recommended that a church should be built here. [...] The Anglican church of St. Paul was first built by subscription in 1776, (fn. 32) and enlarged in 1823".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.55, -2.7924
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 33′ 0″ N, 2° 47′ 32.64″ W
UTM: 30U 513754 5933476

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-07-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.