Historic images from across the borough
A view of the stocks outside St Cuthbert’s in Southport.
| Photograph Date | c1880 |
|---|---|
| Location | Southport |
| Photograph ID | NS_P96_72 |
| Keywords | St Cuthbert's Church, Churchtown, stocks |
| Comments | The last use of the stocks dates back to 1860 for the confinement of a drunken individual for 6 hours. St Cuthbert’s has been a place of continuous Christian worship for over 825 years with successive buildings used on this site. The present church of St Cuthbert dates from 1739 with substantial alterations in the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries. It is believed that St Cuthbert’s was one church relating to a series of churches erected to mark the resting place for the bones of St Cuthbert as they were moved throughout the region. Wherever the bones were rested for the night a church was erected and this would place a church on the site from the 9th Century. This dates the site back to Anglo Saxon times, possibly making St Cuthbert’s the oldest Christian site in Sefton. |
