Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas
Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas. Old Churchyard, Chapel Street.
"Church. Tower is now the oldest part, built 1811-15 by Thomas Harrison of Chester, ashlar in Decorated Gothic style, 4 angle buttresses terminating in crocketed finials, with flying buttress supporting a graceful open lantern, which is surmounted by a ship weather vane. The rest of the church is 1952 by Edward C Butler, after war damage, in Perpendicular Gothic".
"...the church of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of mariners. This church was the first founded in Liverpool, of which it was the original parish-church; the present building, however, dates only from the 18th cent., while the tower, with its lantern, was erected in 1815 on the fall of an older one".--Baedeker
Grade II listed building. List entry Number: 1205993.
My great-great-grandparents, Joseph Barlow and Nancy Hewitt, were married here in 1853.
My great-great-great-grandmother, Sarah Youds, was baptised here in 1807.
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