A Comprehensive List of Warrington Chapelries

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 * WARRINGTON (St. Helen), a borough, market town, and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster; the parish containing, with the chapelry of Burtonwood, and the townships of Poulton with Fearnhead, Rixton with Glazebrook, and Woolston with Martinscroft, 21,901 inhabitants, of whom 18,981 are in the town, 18 miles (E.) from Liverpool, 19½ (W. S. W.) from Manchester, 52 (S. by E.) from Lancaster, and 188 (N. W. by N.) from London. From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 470-475.

Warrington has the following chapelries (churches) attached to it, each of which hold baptismal, (some) marriage and burial registers in them:

Warrington Holy Trinity - 1816


 * Warrington St Helen - 1591

Warrington St Paul - 1830

Burton-Wood - 1668

Hollinfare - 1654

Padgate - 1838

See also St James Latchford, which was a chapelry in Grappenhall Parish, Cheshire but lying contiguous to Warrington. Some Warrington records were included in some of the Latchford chapelry church registers:

Latchford St James - 1777