The church was built between 1839 and 1841, and designed probably by A. H. Holme (the builders being S. Holme and Son).
At this time it was a Chapel of ease to St Cuthbert, Halsall, and it became a separate parish in its own right in 1871.
Additions were made to the church in 1912, including the chancel, a south chapel and a north vestry, by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley.
These additions cost £6,000
The cache can be found by the Bristol and Theodore Psalter... get the picture?
The Bristol Psalter
11th-century manuscript contains the Greek text of the Psalms followed by the biblical Odes. It is an example of a group of manuscripts known as ‘marginal psalters’, so called because the margins are lavishly decorated with images related to the text of the Psalms. Many of these images depict scenes from the life of Christ, and in so doing link the words of the Old Testament to the Christian message of the Gospels.
The Theodore Psalter
Many of the marginal illuminations depict scenes from the life of Christ, thus linking the text of the Psalms to the Gospels. The artist has also drawn on more recent events: throughout the manuscript can be found images of iconoclasts, who worked to destroy religious art in Byzantium in the 8th and 9th centuries. The depiction of these individuals as sinners suffering terrible torments in Hell is a clear rebuke by an artist of this period in Byzantine history.
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