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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Aaron Curran

Town's oldest structure held lost graves hidden for decades

The oldest structure in one Merseyside town is home to the remains of a man who helped put the town on the map.

Windleshaw Chantry, on Abbey Road, St Helens was built almost 800 years ago - with construction finished in 1435. Built by Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn, some historians believe this was to celebrate his surviving of the Battle of Agincourt.

Eventually the building would begin to decay, and was used as a cemetery from around the 18th century.

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