Clitheroe / Clederowe / Cilderhoe / Gliderhou / Clithero

No individual entry for Clitheroe found in the Domesday survey. Tyrrell-Green (1928) list here one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. There is no mention of a font in Pevsner (1969), but it is mentioned in Hartwell & Pevsner (2009): "Plain octagonal bowl on a C20 base. Said to be C17." [NB: there has been a church on this site since the 12th century but we have no information on the medieval font(s)]. The Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 6, 1911) notes: "The chapel of St. Michael within the castle of Clitheroe was sometimes called extra-parochial and sometimes described as the parish church of the castle and demesne, with the large forest districts of the honor. […] In either case it was outside the parish of Whalley ecclesiastically, but the abbot and convent, after long contention, had it awarded to them, […] and they treated the forest district of which it was the head as a peculiar jurisdiction, holding regular visitations for it in place of the bishop […] St. Michael's Chapel, no doubt coeval with the castle, […] has long disappeared". [NB: this might normally have meant mean that there could have been a baptismal font in it, but the VCH (ibid.) reports that "The monks [of Stanlaw] denied that it was a free chapel because it had no font or burial-ground and had no privilege from the apostolic see." The same entry in the VCH notes also: "Clitheroe was in the chapelry of St. Mary Magdalene, this chapel existing as early as 1120. [...] But little is known of its history or of the chaplains who served it." All other churches in Clitheroe have modern fonts. The entry for thuis church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1362179] notes: " Parish church with C15 tower and east end; the remainder 1828-29 by T. Rickman, with tower heightened and spire added 1844, clerestorey added in 1898 by F. Robinson. [...] The plain octagonal font is said to be C17 but is on a C20 base."