St Peter's Church, Salesbury.
St. Peter’s is a distinctive Anglican church - (the steeple appears Tudor in design) which values tradition and offers stillness and peace, in a community constantly seeking to learn and develop itself.
The township lies on an affluent of the river Ribble, 1½ mile west of Ribchester railway station, and 5 North by East of Blackburn. The church is situated at the centre of the village of Salesbury. The parish covers not only Salesbury, but Copster Green and Wilpshire and is easily accessible from a wider area via good road and bus links.
With stunning views towards the Pennines mountain range, the ecclesiastical parish of St Peter was created in 1842 and was originally a district chapelry of the townships of Salesbury, Wilpshire, Osbaldeston, Clayton-le-Dale and Dinckley. The chapel of St Peter was built in 1806 and consecrated in 1807.
The present building was erected on the site of the old chapel in 1882.For generations there was no church at Salesbury. Local landowners had private chapels, as at Salesbury Old Hall, Showley Hall, and possibly also at Lovely Hall. Tenants and servants attended these, but for baptisms, marriages and burials the people went to the Parish Church of St. Mary at Blackburn, or to St. Wilfrid’s at Ribchester.
The five miles to church at Blackburn or Ribchester would have been no distance for the devout, but would only have been undertaken on special occasions by the less religious. The population increased at the end of the eighteenth century with the boom in weaving, and Viscount Bulkeley and other landowners raised the money to build a ‘chapelry’ or chapel-of-ease for Blackburn at Salesbury ....
Paul.
St. Peter’s is a distinctive Anglican church - (the steeple appears Tudor in design) which values tradition and offers stillness and peace, in a community constantly seeking to learn and develop itself.
The township lies on an affluent of the river Ribble, 1½ mile west of Ribchester railway station, and 5 North by East of Blackburn. The church is situated at the centre of the village of Salesbury. The parish covers not only Salesbury, but Copster Green and Wilpshire and is easily accessible from a wider area via good road and bus links.
With stunning views towards the Pennines mountain range, the ecclesiastical parish of St Peter was created in 1842 and was originally a district chapelry of the townships of Salesbury, Wilpshire, Osbaldeston, Clayton-le-Dale and Dinckley. The chapel of St Peter was built in 1806 and consecrated in 1807.
The present building was erected on the site of the old chapel in 1882.For generations there was no church at Salesbury. Local landowners had private chapels, as at Salesbury Old Hall, Showley Hall, and possibly also at Lovely Hall. Tenants and servants attended these, but for baptisms, marriages and burials the people went to the Parish Church of St. Mary at Blackburn, or to St. Wilfrid’s at Ribchester.
The five miles to church at Blackburn or Ribchester would have been no distance for the devout, but would only have been undertaken on special occasions by the less religious. The population increased at the end of the eighteenth century with the boom in weaving, and Viscount Bulkeley and other landowners raised the money to build a ‘chapelry’ or chapel-of-ease for Blackburn at Salesbury ....
Paul.
