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Chapel Street Court, POULTON-LE-FYLDE, FY6 7BH

The part-timbered building on the right is the Thatched House Hotel.

The churchyard at St Chad's was closed for burials in 1833. In 1973 most of the graveyard was levelled and many of the stones set into the ground as paving slabs. Just a small number of table tombs and memorials were left. The memorial on the right is to John Bowman who was the first secretary to the Fylde Temperance Union who died April 6th 1867, aged 25 years. The table tomb on the left, in memory of William Ellet, is festooned with fallen chestnuts. In the background is the door into the Clergy Vestry. The paths on the left lead down to the Market Place.

The doorway leads down to the Fleetwood family vault. Over the door are two carved scrolls and the inscription "Insignia Rici Fleetwood An Hujus Ecciffe Patronis Anno Dni 1699" - The arms of Richard Fleetwood Esq patron of this church Anno Domini 1699. The arms can no longer be seen in the stonework but the Fleetwod family arms feature in the lead rainwater heads along the nave wall. About eighteen members of the family are buried in the underground brick lined vault.

On the south wall is a marble tablet in memory of various members of the Hull family. John Hull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hull_(physician) who was born in Poulton in 1761, was a surgeon and botanist of some renown and the author of several books about British plants. The tablet is in three sections. Image Image Image

The inscription on the left-hand section of the Hull Memorial Image reads: IN MEMORY OF FRANCES HULL, DAUGHTER OF BENJAMIN WILSON AND SUSANNAH HIS WIFE BORN AT MANCHESTER 15TH AUG 1794, MARRIED THERE TO WILLIAM WINSTANLEY HULL 27TH DEC 1820 DIED AT TICKWOOLD NEAR WENLOCK,22ND MARCH 1849 LOOKING UNTO JESUS THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH. WILLIAM WILSON HULL M.A. THEIR ELDEST SON, BORN 18TH NOV 1822, DIED 1ST SEP 1848,IN THE QUEEN'S SERVICE AT BATHURST ST MARY'S ISLAND IN THE RIVER GAMBIA. HENRY MITCHELL HULL M.A. THEIR YOUNGEST SON, BORN IN LONDON 28TH DEC 1827, DIED AT MALVERN 2ND NOVEMBER 1853, GENTLE TRUTHFUL AFFECTIONATE GENEROUS CHEERFUL. MODEST ACTIVE DILIGENT AND RESOLUTE OF SIMPLEST MANNERS AND SOUNDEST UNDERSTANDING HE LIVED IN FAVOR BOTH WITH THE LORD AND WITH MEN HOPING BY FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS TO LAY HOLD ON ETERNAL LIFE THE FREE GIFT OF GOD.