IN your report on Windleshaw Chantry’s 600th anniversary, you mention that it was believed to have been involved in the English Civil War. That in fact is what turned the building into a ruin.
In February 1644, Parliamentary troops under General Fairfax on their way to the siege of Lathom House, then the home of the Stanleys, stripped lead from the roof to make musket and cannon balls.
The stone mould they used is now, I believe, in Lathom Church. A groove near the top of the right-hand pillar of the Chantry’s entrance archway was made when Roundhead soldiers used the local sandstone to sharpen their sabres.
Kevin Heneghan
North Road
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