Whalley nr. Accrington / Wallei

There is an entry for Whalley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD7336/whalley/] [accessed 22 February 2019]; it reports two churches and "2.25 church lands" in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 6, 1911) notes: "Although a church probably stood on the present site in Saxon times and was followed by a later 12thcentury building, [...] the history of the present building begins in the 13th century, to which period the greater part of it still belongs. [...] The font stands on two raised steps in its original position, to the west of the third pier of the south arcade, near the south entrance. It is of yellow gritstone, octagonal in form, and probably of late 15th or early 16th-century date. The sides are plain, but have an embattled moulding at the bottom. There is a flat hinged wooden cover probably of 17thcentury date, but it seems to be of the old form, as shown by the marks on the west side of the bowl, indicating a lock by which the cover was fastened down." Noted in Pevsner (1969): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, big and coarse." Hartwell & Pevsner (2009) add a mention of "a huge stepped base". [NB: the original church is mentioned in Domesday Book, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) -- The VCH (ibid.) notes a second font in the church: "At the west end of the north aisle, near the gallery staircase, is a small stone font, which was formerly at Wiswell Hall and was brought here for preservation when the hall was pulled down in 1895."]