. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 40 ft. long by 16 ft. wide. This may have been ST. MICHAEL- ON-WYRE wealth period,86 while a number of ' Papists' regis- tered estates in ; extended eastward in the late 15th~o7 e'arl'y .6th The piety of Richard son of Roger century and a south aisle added, and later aeain in CHURCH makes it probable that a chapel existed the .6th century a further aisle added onthfou h in his demesne before 1200 Though side, the first aisle then becoming the nave. The this is confirmed by remains ,n the buildin
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 40 ft. long by 16 ft. wide. This may have been ST. MICHAEL- ON-WYRE wealth period,86 while a number of ' Papists' regis- tered estates in ; extended eastward in the late 15th~o7 e'arl'y .6th The piety of Richard son of Roger century and a south aisle added, and later aeain in CHURCH makes it probable that a chapel existed the .6th century a further aisle added onthfou h in his demesne before 1200 Though side, the first aisle then becoming the nave. The this is confirmed by remains ,n the building, there evidence for this is, however, far from being conclu- B MB Century Hi 15BJ Century MB ISSCentury L"Z] Modern seems to be no direct documentary evidenceM of the chapel till 1552, when its 'ornaments' were seized for the About the same time it was locally styled a 'church.' ,0 There was no endowment, but the vicar of St. Michael's allowed £4 a year to the curate,61 and service there appears to have been main- tained after the Reformation. In 1650 the minister had an allowance of £50 a year from the Committee of Plundered The certified income in 1717 was only £3, but further endow- ments were procured about that time,61 and the net value is now given as The church of ST. JNNE stands at the south end of the village, near the edge of the higher ground before its fall to Woodplumpton Brook, and consists of chancel and nave with north and south aisles forming a parallelogram measuring internally 72 ft. 6 in. long by 47 ft. 6 in. wide, with north-east vestry and small western tower with octagonal lantern. The oldest part of the building is the western half of the north aisle wall, in which there are a window of c. 1300 and a door of about 100 years later, the east part of the wall, together with the east wall of the aisle, being either of 15 th or early 16th-century date, or an older wall restored with later windows inserted. The north and south ar
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