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St Luke, Formby, Lancashire

Formby
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Lancashire
now Merseyside
  • James Cameron
28 Apr 2018

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Description

In 1852-5, St Luke was built on this ancient burial ground. The precise location of the original chapel is not known, and no fragments remain, except the font.

History

Formby appears in the Domesday Book, assed at 4 geld units. The original medieval chapel of ease originally stood in the settlement of Raven Meols, vacated in 1736 for St Peter in a more central position in the modern town. Little is known of the site currently occupied by St Luke's church, but it seems to have been used as a Catholic burial ground by the early 19thc. A chapel there was destroyed by a sandstorm in 1739, and may have been medieval.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Bibliography

W. Farrer and J Brownbill eds, A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, London 1907, 45-52.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp45-52

J. W. Ellis, "The Mediaeval Fonts of the Hundreds of West Derby and the Wirral", Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 53 (1901), 62-63.

R. Pollard and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South West, New Haven and London 2006, 172.