Coppull / Cophull / Cophulle / Copthull

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: latest (1861) re-building of a pre-Reformation chapel here

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2015 by Gary Rogers [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4671459] [accessed 13 March 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22027COP
Church/Chapel: Coppull C Of E Parish Church
Church Location: 209 Chapel Ln, Coppull, Chorley PR7 4NA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1257 791218
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A49, between Chorley (NE) and Standish (S)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blacburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Leyland
Date: ca. 1520?
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Pre-Reformation
Church Notes: original pre-Reformation chapel documented 1520; re-built several times, lastly 1861 as parish church
No individual entry for Coppull found in the Domesday survey. The entry for this township in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 6, 1911) notes: "A chapel certainly existed at Coppull before the Reformation, [...] but it was afterwards allowed to fall into ruin. [...] In 1654 a new one was built [...] in 1660 the chapel appears to have been served from the parish church [...] closed in 1715 [...] rebuilt in 1758 and replaced by the present church in 1861. There is no dedication"; no font mentioned.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.61666, -2.6544
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 36′ 59.98″ N, 2° 39′ 15.84″ W
UTM: 30U 522861 5940928