The ruins of St Catherine's Chapel, Lydiate, Merseyside (Triptych)
St Catherine's Chapel is located in Lydiate, Merseyside and is known locally as Lydiate Abbey. It was built around 1500 for the private worship of the Ireland family, who held the Lydiate lordship from 1410–1673. Its use as a private chapel ceased in the 1550s, following Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, though the small cemetery on the same grounds was still in use until the latter 19th century. Local legend has it that you can hear the cries of children and babies that were sacrificed on these grounds and that there is a lost priest tunnel that leads from the chapel to the nearby ruins of Lydiate Hall. Ghosts of a monk and pilots from a WW2 plane crash have apparently been seen and heard walking the grounds. I have visited this site on many occasions and never seen or heard anything, although it does have a rather eerie feeling about the place.
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