St Mary and All Saints, Whalley - Church of England

St Mary and All Saints,
Church Lane,
Whalley
Lancashire

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Inside the church

Church History

It was founded in 596.

Whalley parish church.

Whilst every effort has been made to record exact details of record office and library holdings you are recommended to check with them before visiting to ensure that they do hold the records and years you wish to examine. Similarly check with transcript publishers to ensure they cover the records and years you require before making a purchase.

Register Transcripts

The Lancashire Parish Register Society have published:

Volume 7 - Mar 1539-1601, Bap &, Bur 1538-1601.
Volume 74 - Bap 1605-1653, Mar 1605-1651, Bur 1605-1652.
Volume 162 - Bap, Mar, Bur 1653-1753
Volume 164 - Bap, Mar, Bur 1754-1812

Transcripts/indexes in progress

1813-1837 are being transcribed for publication by the Lancashire Parish Register Society.
Status: Apr 2007 - Transcription, collation with BTs and indexing has been completed.

Work on transcripts and indexes start off with good intentions, but circumstances can arise which mean that the task is larger than first envisaged, or other tasks require the trancribers time. So there is no guarantee that publication will always take place or that initially envisaged target dates will be met.

The work being undertaken is not being done as part of GENUKI, so it will not be available for online research as part of this site. This does not of course preclude it being made available in this way elsewhere. The final publication medium will be determined by the trancriber.

Maps

The church is located at OS grid reference SD7325436175. You can see this on maps provided by:

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Help required

The information provided has been obtained from a number of sources and although every effort is made to avoid errors, just a few may be present. So if there are any please let us know. [Use the link at the bottom of this page].

We do not currently have the following information, and if you can provide it then please do so:

Have the Monumentals Inscriptions on the gravestones been transcribed and published, and by whom?
Have you any details about the history of the church? Old directories frequently contain such information, and if you can transcribe such information and let us have it, we can add it to this page.
Who holds the records of baptisms, marriages or burials? Have any transcripts of the registers been published?

If you have any further information about the church that you think would be useful to other researchers then do get in touch.