Church Lawton / Lautune / Lavtvne
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view of church exterior - south view
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
Image Source: Richards (1973)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10756CHU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Lawton, Cheshire East ST7 3DG
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chester
Historical Region: Hundred of Middlewich
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman? / Romanesque?
Church Notes: church here late-11thC; 1652 church damaged by lightning and parishioners killed; destroyed by fire 1798; re-built 1803
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for [Church] Lawton and [Bug]lawton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/church-lawton-and-buglawton/] [accessed 29 September 2014], neither of which reports a cleric or a church in it, but a church appears to have been built here in the late 11th century; we have found no record of the earlier font. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SJ8216455759] (1967) notes the "Romanesque door surround of C11 or C12" in this church, but mentions no font. Richards (1973) notes: "In the new rectory garden is a delightful font [...] made of white stone, about the middle of the eighteenth century. The bowl is shaped as a quatrefoil, the lower half gadrooned. The stem keeps the same form, the upper part with an annulet, the lower part swelling out baluster fashion, with a moulding at its broadest part. It is a charming example of its period, and its proper place is within the church."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.0987, -2.2678
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 5′ 55.32″ N, 2° 16′ 4.08″ W
UTM: 30U 549026 5883501
REFERENCES
Richards, Raymond, Old Cheshire churches: a survey of their history, fabric and furniture with records of the older monuments, with a supplementary survey relating to the lesser old chapels of Cheshire, Didsbury, Manchester: E.J. Morten, 1973