The Sefton Coast
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The guns at Fort Perch Rock were fired only twice in anger. The first occasion occurred during the First World War. A Norwegian sailing ship came up the Rock Channel that had been declared closed at the start of the war. Unfortunately the gunners had the wrong elevation on their gun and the shell flew over the ship and landed in Hightown on the other side of the Mersey. Apparently an irate householder collected the shell, put it in a bucket and took it to the Merseyside Defence HQ and demanded some kind of explanation!
One's got to love the Brits, hasn't one?! ;-)
The simple things in life.
I think we have all learned over the last two years how important the simple things in life are. Plus which ones really matter to us.
Description
The church stands in an open position between Hightown and Hartshead; there are few buildings nearby apart from Church Farm. The building, in sandstone, is largely a neo-Norman rebuild of 1881, comprising an aisled nave, porch, chancel and W tower; there are no faculty papers at the Borthwick Institute.
The tower is thought to be 12thc, perhaps because it is unbuttressed (Pevsner 1967, 254). The nave doorway and the chancel arch have Romanesque sculpture. 12thc stone may be reused in the modern font, and there is an old font, but neither of these has sculpture.
History
Hartshead is recorded in Domesday Book as part of the Lacy fee (Williams, 1992, f. 318) with no mention of a church or priest. The advowsons of the churches of Halifax, Wakefield and Dewsbury, and the chapelries of Hartshead and Horbury were given to Lewes Priory c.1120, confirmed c.1145. The manor of Dewsbury remained with the Warennes (Pobjoy and Pobjoy 1972, 17).
The Revd. Patrick Brontë was vicar here between 1810 and 1815.