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On the railings outside was an ornamental drinking
fountain erected to the memory of a member of the Rathbone family
who died in 1860. This is clearly marked on the 1905 OS map. Griffiths (1907) also notes that before the erection of the church, this corner was occupied by a mansion and grounds of Mr C Tayleur's ' Parkfield Estate' which extended down Ullet Road on one side and to Lark Lane on the other. Dickenson's Dingle ran through the grounds. The old stone lodge of the estate still stood in 1907 'next to the church on the main road' and a portion of one of the farm buildings was found in one of the back gardens in adjacent Sandringham Drive. |