Ormskirk Parish Church

Image: © Colin Park Taken: 1 May 1990

From Wikipedia;- The Church of St Peter and St Paul is in the market town of Ormskirk. Dating from no later than the 12th century, it is one of only three churches in England to have both a tower and spire, and the only one to have them both at the same end of the church. The exact date of the foundation of a church in Ormskirk is unclear, although it is likely that there was a church on the site of the present one in Saxon time. Parts of the present church existed in the 12th century, although the building has been altered and added to over successive centuries. The earliest part of the building is the north wall of the chancel, which dates from c. 1170 and contains a heavily-restored Norman window. On the south of the chancel are two arches dating from c.1280, which formerly led into a chapel of the same date. The sixteenth-century Derby Chapel now occupies the same site. The next surviving feature is the 15th-century steeple, though the spire was rebuilt in both 1790 and 1832.

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