IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
School Lane, PRESCOT, L35 6NN
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to School Lane, L35 6NN by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (41 Images Found)
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Old Milestone by the A57, Warrington Road, Rainhill Parish
Carved stone post by the A57, in parish of RAINHILL (ST HELENS District), Warrington Road; 50m West of junction with School Lane, in front of school, on East side of road. Prescot stone, erected by the Liverpool, Prescot, Ashton & Warrington turnpike trust in the 19th century.
Inscription reads:-
: TO / WARRINGTON / VII / MILES : : TO PRESCOT / III / MILES / TO / LIVERPOOL / XI / MILES :
Merseyside HER listed. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=3308408&resourceID=1970
Milestone Society National ID: LA_WALV07.
Image: © M Faherty
Taken: 24 Aug 2008
0.03 miles
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Milestone, Rainhill Stoops
Milestone on Warrington Road, Rainhill Stoops. By an Act of 1753, Prescot was turnpiked as far as Warrington making the road six yards wide with a gravelled surface which improved stagecoach services between Manchester and Liverpool, coaches to London began in 1761, the journey taking three days. Milestones were set up in 1754, as was a toll gate at Kendricks Cross.
Image: © Sue Adair
Taken: 7 May 2017
0.05 miles
4
St Bartholomews on a frosty New Year's day
View of the 19th Cent church and priest's house.
Image: © Dominic Cropper
Taken: 1 Jan 2009
0.06 miles
5
St. Bartholomew's Roman Catholic Church, Rainhill
This is St. Bartholomew's Roman Catholic Church on Warrington Road, Rainhill.
Image: © andy
Taken: 17 Jul 2005
0.06 miles
6
Nativity crib, St Bartholomew's Church, Rainhill Stoops
Image: © David Long
Taken: 18 Jan 2010
0.06 miles
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St Bartholomew's Church
St Bartholomew's Roman Catholic Church, at Rainhill, dates from 1840. It is built of red sandstone in a very imposing Classical style in the form of a prostyle temple. The west end of the church has six massive fluted Ionic columns with frieze and pediment, with a tall central doorway under a portico.
The Italianate campanile was added 1849. It has twin bell openings on each face and a pyramidal roof.
The church is designated as a Grade II listed building by English Heritage.
http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1253246 National Heritage list for England
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 5 Mar 2013
0.07 miles
