Leyland Church

In 'Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England' (1849), James Orchard Halliwell tells of a local tale current sixty years before his time: On the day the builders finished Leyland church, it was mysteriously shifted during the night to another spot.
Next day, villagers found a marble tablet inside the church which read:

Here thou shalt be,
And here thou shalt stand,
And thou shalt be called
The church of Ley-land.

Similar stories are attached to churches in Rossendale and Rochdale.
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