Rivington / Rawinton / Revington / Revyngton / Riuiton / Rouynton / Rovington / Rowinton / Rowynton / Roynton / Ruhwinton / Ryvington

No individual entry found for Rivington in the Domesday survey. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes that, although an inscription dates this chapel to ca. 1530, the pulpit, chancel screen and font "are thought to be of much higher antiquity." The entry for this township in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 5, 1911) notes: "A chapel of ease was built at Rivington some time before the Reformation, [...] and was rebuilt or restored by Richard Pilkington about 1540 [...] The present structure structure appears to be a rebuilding, about 1666, of the 16th-century chapel of Richard Pilkington"; no font mentioned. The Rivington Parish website notes and illustrates two fonts (?): "The font, which was originally at the West End, was refixed in its present position in 1883. Tragically the conical oak cover has been disposed of." The font referred to in this text is octagonal, with panel decoration on the sides, and mouldings on its base; it is probably 19th-century, unless it is a re-cut of a late-Medieval font; the second font (?) is a crude small basin squarish but with rounded sides and totally plain; is it a font at all?: "a Saxon Font, found in the locality, and given to the Rev. G.E.Owen by Charles Sixsmith of Anderton, and which is now housed in the Millennium Room at the Church."