Great Harwood No. 2 / Harewode Magna / Harewude

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 12

Scene Description: in pairs on six of the eight sides of the basin

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1736512] [accessed 14 March 2019]

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design element - motifs - panel - blank

Scene Description: seen here on the right side, opposite the panel with the inscription

Image Source: undated digital photograph in the Great Harwood Parish web site [www.stbartschurch.org.uk/the-church-its-heritage/] [accessed 14 March 2019]

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inscription

Scene Description: with the date of the font; seen here on the right side

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1736512] [accessed 14 March 2019]

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Scene Description: Source info: "Dated 1662, it bears the initials ‘I E’. These are thought to refer to John Eddlestone who was Churchwarden at that time. The cover dates from 1897 and replaced an earlier one from 1820."

Image Source: undated digital photograph in the Great Harwood Parish web site [www.stbartschurch.org.uk/the-church-its-heritage/] [accessed 14 March 2019]

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Scene Description: 17thC FONT+COVER digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1736512] [accessed 14 March 2019] 17thC FONT+COVER PARISH SOURCE undated digital photograph in the Great Harwood Parish web site [www.stbartschurch.org.uk/the-church-its-heritage/] [accessed 14 March 2019] Source info: "Dated 1662, it bears the initials ‘I E’. These are thought to refer to John Eddlestone who was Churchwarden at that time. The cover dates from 1897 and replaced an earlier one from 1820."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1736512] [accessed 14 March 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07383HAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew [original Parochial Chapel of St Lawrence]

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew [early chapel originally dedicated to St Lawrence]

Church Location: Church Ln, Great Harwood, Blackburn BB6 7PU, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lancashire, North West

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B6535, 7-8 km SW of Blackburn

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn

Historical Region: Hundred of Blackburn

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W tower

Date: 1662? / 1663?

Century and Period: 17th century(mid) [basin only] [composite font], Baroque [composite]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Great Harwood in the Domesday survey. The entry for this township in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 6, 1911) notes: "The parochial chapel of St. Lawrence has been mentioned under the date 1390 [...] The commissioners of 1546 certified that Richard Wood, priest, was incumbent of the chantry; he had licence to christen, marry and bury and to minister the sacraments to the neighbouring inhabitants, who numbered 400 'houselinge people.' [...] The ancient invocation of the chapel has long been changed to that of the Hesketh chantry, St. Bartholomew. [...] The font now in use stands under the tower, and has on one of its eight sides the initials and date I E 1662. The other sides have traceried panels." Cox & Harvey (1907) list this one as a Restoration baptismal font dated 1662. Pevsner (1969) notes: "Under the tower a font of 1663, Octagonal, with square panels, mostly with basic blank cusped arches in pairs." Hartwell & Pevsner (2009) adds: "The panelled base does not go with it". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD7338732716] [accessed 14 March 2019] notes: "Church, early C16 with C15 tower and C19 chancel. [...] font dated 1662, with letters "IE"". The Great Harwood Parish web site [www.stbartschurch.org.uk/the-church-its-heritage/] [accessed 14 March 2019] informs: "The font has been moved over the years from the North Aisle to the Tower area and to its present location between the nave and the chancel. Dated 1662, it bears the initials ‘I E’. These are thought to refer to John Eddlestone who was Churchwarden at that time. The cover dates from 1897 and replaced an earlier one from 1820." [cf. Index entry for Gt Harwwod No. 1 for the shaft of a Perpendicular font kept in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.7901, -2.4054

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 47′ 24.36″ N, 2° 24′ 19.44″ W

UTM: 30U 539171 5960332

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: basin side

Inscription Text: [1662\ / IE]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1897

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: replaces earlier lid of 1809 [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-03-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Hartwell, Clare, Lancashire North, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2009

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lancashire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969