In accordance with the will of Francis Bowes the first church or Chapel of Ease was built in 1840, the church was rebuilt and enlarged.

Edmund Sharpe made the plans and the estimate for the new church, the cost being £1,288. It is described as Pre Archaeological Gothic of the 13th to 15th century.

Pevsner describes it briefly.

“It has paired lancets along the sides, a west tower with quite an original managing of the bell-openings and the crenellation, and a barn roof inside.”

Edmund Sharpe was instrumental in improving the sanitary conditions of Morecambe. He was elected to the town council in 1841 and became Mayor in 1848.

Following a resolution passed on the 2nd November 1947 by the Police Commissioners which stated “That in the opinion of this meeting the sewerage of the town is in a defective state” nothing appeared to be done.

Sharpe delivered a speech to the Local Board of Health on Monday 24th

December 1849 entitled “A proposal for supplying the town of Lancaster with water, and for improving its sewerage.”

The plans he produced for new sewerage and water supply became the basis for the improved water system in the town after 1852.

His architectural heritage to Lancaster can be seen in the design of St Paul’s Church, Scotforth 1874-76.