The river Mersey flows to the south of the village, which is a station on the St. Helen's branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel here. You can see the administrative areas in which Widnes has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
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There are more than 30 churches identified in this place. Please click here for a complete list. Civil Registration. You can see pictures of Widnes which are provided by: Geograph Flickr. Widnes is 5 miles north of Frodsham. Widnes is 6 miles south-east of Prescot. Widnes is 6 miles west of Warrington. Widnes is 6 miles south of St Helens. Widnes is 7 miles south-west of Newton-le-Willows. Widnes is 8 miles south of Haydock. Widnes is 9 miles north-east of Ellesmere Port.
Widnes is 9 miles south of Billinge. Widnes is 10 miles south-west of Ashton-in-Makerfield. Widnes is 11 miles east of Liverpool.
Widnes is 14 miles north-east of Chester. In the north wall is a three-light window, cinquefoiled, with quatrefoiled tracery in the head, of late fifteenth-century type. The chancel arch is of two chamfered orders with half-octagonal responds, and of later date than the walls of the chancel; its probable origin has been noted above.
The roof of the chancel is flat, divided into square panels with heavy moulded beams having bosses at the intersections and diagonal ribs across the panels; a fine piece of late fifteenth-century work. The vestry on the north is modern. The south chapel has an east window of three lights, like that on the north of the chancel, and two three-light windows on the south, with uncusped tracery.
There is a small four-centred doorway in its east wall, and another near the west end of the south wall. Its roof is modern, and the chapel is now used as an organchamber. The south transept has a four-light east window, containing a few squares of old glass, with the letters SG, and a five-light south window with modern uncusped tracery.
The west window is of somewhat earlier type, square-headed with three trefoiled lights, but is probably not older than the wall in which it is set. Beneath it is a blocked doorway, and in the south-west angle of the transept is a vice. The roof is old, cleaned and repaired at a late restoration, —5, up to which time the base of a screen with linen pattern panels remained in this transept. It was then removed, and the panels re-used in the altar table now in the chancel.
The nave is of five bays; the north arcade is modern c. It was destroyed in , under the mistaken impression that it was thrusting out the north arcade. The north aisle was rebuilt in and no ancient features were preserved; it formerly had a good panelled roof and moulded cornice with paterae.
The Bold chapel was enclosed on south and west with oak screens, and had a flat panelled oak roof with diagonal ribs on the panels, after the fashion of that still existing in the chancel. The south aisle has been more fortunate, and retains a fifteenth-century south doorway, fitted with an old door, a square-headed window west of the doorway, with three trefoiled lights and perhaps coeval with the aisle, and a second window east of the doorway of two trefoiled lights under a square head, of the beginning of the sixteenth century.
The roof also is old, with an embattled cornice, and was repaired in —5. The tower arch is plain, and was formerly built up; it is now filled with a seventeenth-century screen with turned oak balusters in the upper part. The west window is of three cinquefoiled lights with quatrefoil tracery, and the belfry windows are square-headed of two lights.
There is a vice in the south-west angle. The lower courses of the old west wall of the nave, before the building of the tower, remain under the floor, and part can still be seen, with a plain chamfered plinth. Until the church was filled with galleries and pews of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many of which had the names of their owners and the dates cut on them, and some of these inscriptions have been preserved and set up as panelling against the walls.
The font, which originally stood in the south aisle, fn. It is octagonal, with a roll at the base of the bowl, but otherwise perfectly plain, and may be of the fifteenth century. In the Bold chapel are the marble figures of Richard Bold, , and his wife, and an armed effigy of very poor workmanship, holding a book, which from its details appears to date from the beginning of the seventeenth century.
About the end of the thirteenth century an attempt seems to have been made to sever the dependency of Farnworth on Prescot.
In Richard de Buddeswall, archdeacon of Chester, holding his visitation at Prescot, caused a number of those who customarily heard divine service and received the sacraments in the chapel to appear before him and assert publicly that Farnworth was not an independent parish, but that the people within the chapelry were bound to contribute to the repairs of the church of Prescot, the maintenance of the service there, and other charges, in the same manner as the rest of the parishioners.
Some prosecutions resulting from the church spoliation of the time of Edward VI are recorded at Farnworth, fn. Few of the names of the pre-Reformation clergy have been preserved. Baldwin Bold was there at the beginning of the sixteenth century, fn. A small yearly payment, called the Duchy money, has long been made to the incumbent by the crown.
The West Bank, close to the old ferry and transporter bridge, is the old heart of the town with Victorian terraced houses built to accommodate chemical workers. There are some notable historic buildings, including the 11th century parish church of St Luke at nearby Farnworth, and visitor attractions include Catalyst which is the only science centre and museum solely devoted to chemistry. As a point of trivia, Widnes railway station is reputedly the inspiration of the song "Homeward Bound" by Paul Simon.
The town's history dates from the 12th century. The ferry across the Mersey at Runcorn Gap was an important spot for travellers; at low tide it was sometimes possible to ford the river. By the 19th century a dock-canal-rail complex was established bringing salt for glass making, and taking coal to Northwich.
The chemical industry, set up here in the early 19th century by Sir Alfred Mond and John Brunner, is still of major importance.
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