Euxton
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view of church exterior - north view
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12157EUX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Euxton Parish Church [formerly known as Burgh Chapel]
Church Location: Wigan Rd, Euxton, Chorley PR7 6JH, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off the M6, 3 km WNW of Chorley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Font Location in Church: Reported in the church ca. 1870
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Euxton in the Domesday survey. Gastrell (1845- ) reports the church here as "ruinated about 20 years" ca. 1717, the time of Gastrell's original document, although it adds that repairs had been done by 1724. Raines, who annotated the 1845- edition, footnotes Gastrell's entry with information of a re-building in 1816 and an enlargement in 1829, and adds: "The Font appears to be ancient, and in the Norman style." Wilson's Gazetteer (1870-1872) reports a Norman font in this church. The entry for this township in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 6, 1911) notes: "A chapel, of which traces are extant, existed in the 14th century, and is supposed to have been rebuilt by one of the Molyneux family in 1513 [...] No dedication is known." [NB: we have been unable to confirm the survival of this piece]. [NB: the Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary, also on Wigan Rd., is a 19th-century building by E.W. Pugin]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.665055, -2.67455
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 39′ 54.2″ N, 2° 40′ 28.38″ W
UTM: 30U 521504 5946306
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-03-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Gastrell, Francis, Right Rev., Notitia cestriensis, of historcal notices of the Diocese of Chester [...], Cheshire: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1845-1850
Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872