Maghull / Magele / Maghal / Maghale / Maghell / Maghul / Maghyl / Maile / Male / Mauhale / Mauwell

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2014 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3960521] [accessed 25 June 2014]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "Ancient Chapel Maghull. Located in the grounds of St Andrews Church. Parts of this chapel date from the 13th century. It is open for public viewing only a few days per year."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ancient Chapel Maghull. Located in the grounds of St Andrews Church. Parts of this chapel date from the 13th century. It is open for public viewing only a few days per year."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Hodge, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2005 by Peter Hodge [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/97160] [accessed 25 June 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 01557MAG
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Northway, Maghull, Sefton L31 7DN
Country Name: England
Location: Merseyside, North West
Directions to Site: Located in the Borough of Sefton, N of Liverpool, S of Ormskirk
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Liverpool
Historical Region: Hundred of West Derby
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century [later base], Late Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Maghull [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SD3702/maghull/] [accessed 25 June 2014], but it mentions neither church nor priest in it. The present font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 3, 1907) however, notes: "The origin of the chapel is unknown, but from what has been said above one must have stood there in the thirteenth century [...] The present church of St. Andrew was consecrated 8 September, 1880, and stands near the old site [...] There are a mutilated piscina and a prismshaped holy-water font. A Georgian baptismal font is built into the wall over the modern west door." The information above is also included in F.H. Cheetham's 16 March 1922 presentation to the Transactions... [https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/74-2-Cheetham.pdf] [accessed 4 March 2019], published with photographs.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.5103, -2.9434
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 30′ 37.19″ N, 2° 56′ 33.72″ W
UTM: 30U 503800 5929045

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

LID INFORMATION

Date: Victorian
Material: wood

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-06-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907