Welcome to the Friends of Prescot Cemetery & Churchyard new look website!

We are a local voluntary group who love Prescot and we need your help!

COME AND JOIN US ON SATURDAYS 1PM TO 3PM MARCH TO DECEMBER

Welcome to "The Friends" website

Hello and Welcome to the Friends of Prescot Cemetery & Churchyard group of volunteers.

We are passionate about Prescot and the history of those who lived in the area dating back many hundreds of years. If you’re also keen on finding out more about Prescot, its ancient Churchyard and the more recent council cemetery section, then this website is for you!

Follow the regular Posts we will be making to help broaden your knowledge of the work we undertake, and plan to undertake! Hopfully, we will provide you with some information, help and guidance along the way!

Why not start by browsing our extensive record set showing all of the burials in the Prescot St Mary’s Churchyard burial ground. (You will need to contact Knowsley Council if you need information about cemetery burials). We have also painstakingly recorded each and every gravestone transcription that we have been able to see in the church area and its ancient burial ground; many of which date back to the late 1600s and there is also a fair number of Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstones to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice in either World War 1 or World War 2.

Did you know that the Prescot War Memorial is officially the oldest War Memorial in the UK having been unveiled in 1916?. That fact has has been validated by the Imperial War Museum.

Click on the green coloured button to the right of this message box and you will gain more information about this fascinating fact!

Come and enjoy the regulsr Blogs and Posts added by the volunteers and also keep an eye on our Facebook Group page for weekly updates.

“At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them”.

"The Friends" as we like to be known by

Officially the oldest War Memorial in the UK!

The Church of Prescot St Mary the Blessed Virgin

There has been a church in Prescot for well over a thousand years.

Prescot was the major town in this area of Lancashire for many, many years before Liverpool came onto the scene.

See the commentary from Philip Battle by clicking on the green button, below!

Baby Memorial

In October 2014, the Friends of Prescot Cemetery & Churchyard, with help from Knowsley Council, created a memorial garden to remember the many children, and stillborn and newborn babies buried in unmarked graves on the site. It has been very well received!

Our Latest Project - abandoned headstone pieces

Over the past 2 to 3 years, we have been looking into a large number of abandoned and ‘butchered’ headstone pieces which were discovered buried under 50 years’ worth of decaying leaves and soil towards the top end of the churchyard burial ground area. area.

We are in the process of making a dedicated area for these headstone pieces!

Around 1971, a local surveying firm in St Helens (Gornall Cross & Co) undertook a survey of a large area of the churchyard ahead of a “redevelopment” activity which saw a great many headstones being relocated in order to expand the roadway at the front of the church and lots of the very old headstones were laid out to form a pathway which is still there today.

We will shortly have a video available about this relocation project and the sharp eyed amongst you may well have noticed the groundworks near the Churchyard entrance gates on Manchester Road!

** update the button, below, when our video is available

Visit

https://prescotparish.org.uk/

HOW TO FIND US

The Prescot Cemetery (as opposed to the ancient churchyard) is on Manchester Road, Prescot, a short walk from the town centre. There are two sets of main gates there plus there is a pedestrian entrance on Wood Lane. You can also enter from the Church area leading into St Mary’s Churchyard, on Church Street, Prescot.

Prescot Parish Church Church Street, L34 3LA
Prescot Cemetery Manchester Road, 1NQ

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Access is 24/7, but for your own safety, we advise visiting during the daytime. Sadly, there is no parking available at the Church but there is a public pay & display car park one minute’s walk away as the NCP Prescot Dean’s House car park (entrance in West Street L34 1LE).

For information on where to park in Prescot, visit knowsley.gov.uk

Donate

Many thanks to everyone who has donated to our cause.

We rely entirely on your support and the occasional funds donated to use by bodies such as the Diocese of Liverpool, the local Tesco in the Community funds and the Prescot Mayor’s fund to name a few.

Anyone wishing to make a donation can do so either on-line (our preferred option) or by passing any donations to one of our members who are usually working in the Churchyard on most Saturday afternoons from 1pm to 3pm from March to December.

Any donations, whatever the amount be it small or large, will help our work enormously such as the funds we need to the work on the headstone pieces relocation project which we’re currently working on as at June 2026. That alone is expected to cost some two to three thousand pounds!

Our Bank Details are as follows;
Account Name: Friends of Prescot Cemetery & Churchyard
Account number 85173088
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