Slaidburn

Noted in Glynne's 31 August 1864 visit to this church, (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a plain cylindrical bowl." Noted in Morris (1932): "Plain circular font, with Jacobean cover." Mee (1941) notes a 17th-century "cover of the Norman font". So does Pevsner (1986 c1967), but as "Elizabethan, similar to Great Mitton." A current [March 2006] survey commissioned by the by the Lancashire County Council [http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/archaeologyandheritage/historictowns/SlaidburnComplete_LowRes.pdf] [accessed 19 November 2008] states: "There is also a Norman font although it has been re-modelled", footnoted to Peel's 'A short history of Slaidburn' (1922: 25). The font appears now [November 2008] as a plain cylinder clearly re-tooled to a-typical smoothness, parts of its upper rim repaired; raised on a round lower base. The wooden cover is still on the font, and it retains the counterweight system that helps to raise and lower it; the pullwy bracket is secured to the nearby pillar, just above the moulded capital.