Springfield Grange Stevenson Way, Farmhill, IM2 2EL Founded by Elaine Elder in 1997. The Nursing Home is situated close to facilities including a doctors surgery, chemist, Spa general store and The Horse and Plough pub. It has bus stops nearby for easy commutes into Douglas. Pulrose golf course is not far away. The Home organises regular events including coffee morning and tea […] Read More
St Andrew’s United Reformed Church-URC Glencrutchery Road, Douglas, IM2 5HZ On the corner at the junction of Ballaquayle Road, Ballanard Road, Glencrutchery Road, and Bray Hill by St. Ninian’s traffic lights. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church and later St. Andrew’s United Reformed Church first met in an upper rooms in Fort Street Douglas on March 20th, 1825. Collections were to be made ‘towards fitting up proper […] Read More
St Anthony’s Ridgeway Road, Onchan, IM3 1HT This modern Church built in the 1980s, has a beautiful stained glass window of Christ Walking on the Water, designed by Chris Spittal, which overlooks Douglas Bay. The Church is next to Calvary Glen and Grotto. The Organ was designed by JW Walker’s Studio in 1990. The Church replaces an earlier chapel, created from a […] Read More
St Bridget’s Church-Kirk Bride Smeal Road, Kirk Bride Roundabout, Bride , IM8 3EZ Earlier Churches on this site date from around 1200. There is some belief that the original church was founded by St Brigid herself after she left Ireland in the 5th Centaury. An earlier keeill can be found in the churchyard under a weeping willow. Sir Norman Wisdom is buried here. The present church, dedicated to […] Read More
St Catherine’s Chapel Church Road, Port Erin, IM9 5LP Built in 1880, by the generosity of William Milner, a locksmith who moved from Liverpool to Port Erin. The Church was quickly extended to accommodate the summer visitors. A bell tower was and two bells added. The larger bell, added in 1909, comes from Chicken Rock lighthouse. At the same time the Sunday School was […] Read More
St Columba Castletown Road, Port Erin, IM9 6LN St. Columba was born in Ireland in 521. He was the grandson of the Irish King Niall. He left Ireland not as a missionary but as an act of self-imposed penance. He had refused to hand over to the King a copy of the Gospels he had illegally copied, resulting in a battle, which Columba’s […] Read More
