Religion
The large Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Nicholas. The original small church on the site was licensed for services in 1722 and was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester in 1755. This was eventually demolished and on 13 May 1848 the new vicar, G L Parsons, laid the foundation stone for the present structure.
It was rebuilt in 1848–49 by the Lancaster architects Sharpe and Paley. In 1884 the tower and spire were added by the successors in the same practice, Paley and Austin.
The church is active, has regular weekly services and is a popular wedding venue.
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“All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to children by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the philosophers celebrate in vain. And nothing stands between the people and the fictions except the silly falsehood that the fictions are literal truths, and that there is nothing in religion but fiction.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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—George Gurdjieff (c. 1877–1949)
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