Melling

Title

Melling

Dedication

Wilfrid

Affiliation

Croxton

Medieval Diocese

Lincoln

Circary

Mid England

History

A parish church which was dependent on the Premonstratensian abbey of Croxton from the 13th century. Much of the present building dates to the 15th century, with the addition of an 18th century clerestory.

Heads of Community

Vicars

John Leicester, fl. 15th c.?
Richard Boteler, fl. 1429
Edmund Green, fl. 1488
Richard Docker, fl. 1500
John Andrew, fl. 1548

Status

Parish church

Bibliography

Farrer, William, and J. Brownbill, eds. “The Parish of Melling.” In A History of the County of Lancaster, 8:186–91. London: Victoria County History, 1914. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol8/pp186-191.

Image Credit

St Wilfrid's Church, Melling, 2007. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Mid England

Citation

“Melling,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/900.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Croxton