Monument record 608/1 - Site of medieval chapel

Before the Reformation there was a Chapel of Ease at Culcheth, called Trinity Church. Also known as Newchurch (1). Culcheth had its own chapel of ease since c.1528, due to the inconvenient distance to Winwick church. In 1662 Winwick was too large, so the 4 Culcheth estates of Culcheth, Holcroft, Risley & Peasefurlong were made into a separate civil parish, but still within the ecclesiastical parish of Winwick. In 1691 a tower was added to the chapel (2). The church was rebuilt in 1743, a plain brick structure (1). In 1845 a separate ecclesiastical parish of Culcheth & Kenyon was created & the incumbent of the church was styled Rector of Newchurch. The Church was destroyed by fire in April 1903 & was rebuilt in the following year in the Norman style (3).

<1> Farrer W & Brownbill J, 1906-14, The Victoria County History of the County of Lancaster, 4/164-5 1911 (Book). SCH3636.

<2> Lymm & District Local History Society, Various, Lymm & District Local History Society - Newsletter, Hughes E M 1978 1/Part III/1-7 (Newsletter). SCH2040.

<3> Cartlidge, Rev. J.E. Gordon, 1971, Warrington & the Mid-Mersey Valley, /19 (Book). SCH3668.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ69SE7/1959 (Index). SCH2487.