More information : SD 65884688 St Michael's Church and site of (NAT) Whitewell Chapel (NR) (1) "St Michael's Church ...... Whitewell,..... Rebuilt in 1817, partly on the site of Whitewell Chapel, formerly a Chapel of Ease to Whalley." (2) Still in use for public worship. No evidence of the earlier chapel can be seen. (3) Condition unchanged. (4) No change to reports of Auths 3 and 4. A notice in the porch says it was "founded .... between 1478 and 1521. It was then a tiny wayside sanctuary scarcely one eighth its present size". (5)
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