Barnston / Barnston nr. Heswall / Bernestone

INFORMATION

FontID: 07453BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Christ Church
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Church Location: 87 Barnston Rd, Barnston, Wirral CH61 1BW, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Merseyside, North West
Directions to Site: Barnston is located off the A551, just NE of Heswall, about 20 km NW of Chester -- Liscard is on the NE tip of Wirral, part of Wallasey today, across from Liverpool
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chester
Historical Region: Hundred of Willaston [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [cf. Font notes]
Church Notes: the present church is modern, 18thC
Font Notes:
This Barnston [variant spelling] is included in a multiple entry in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ2783/barnston/] [accessed 6 December 2023]; neither priest nor church is mentioned in the entry. Alan F. Dakin's Christ Church Barnston: A Brief History & Guide [cf. infra] writes of three fonts related to this church: 1)a Caen-stone font; 2)its predecessor given to the Church of St. Thomas, Liscard; and 3)a portable wooden font. [NB: no dates are given for any of the three; the present-day church was built in 1871, but previous churches existed in its place] [source: web site at http://members.aol.com/muhunjia/Dakin.htm]. The Wikipedia entry for this church [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church,_Barnston] [accessed 6 December 2023] reports a 20th-century octagonal font in it

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.3409, -3.0821
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 20′ 27.24″ N, 3° 4′ 55.56″ W
UTM: 30U 494534 5910197