Eccleston nr. Chorley / Eglestun

Results: 4 records

B01: coat of arms - Stanley family (eagle`s claw)

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B02: coat of arms - Stanley Family - Legs of Man

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B03: symbol - Christ - the instruments of the Passion

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B04: design element - motifs - quatrefoil

some(?) containing symbols [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: some(?) containing symbols [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12163CHO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Towngate, Eccleston, Lancashire, PR7 5QL
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km W of Chorley; St Mary's is at Towngate, by the river Yarrow [NB: there are at least five Ecclestons in Lancs. -- there is also another parish of St Mary, Eccleston, in Cheshire]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century (late?) [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
This Eccleston is mentioned in the Domesday survey entry for Preston [variant spelling] [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SD4240/great-eccleston/] [accessed 15 July 2014]. A font here is noted in Pevsner (1969) and in Hartwell & Pevsner (2009), as a late-15th century octagonal font decorated with re-cut "quatrefoils containing the Instruments of the Passion and the eagle's claw and the Legs of Man emblems of the Stanleys". [NB: there are at least five 'Eccleston' toponyms in Lancs. Pevsner (ibid.) notes that the church of St Helen's, in the Eccleston near Prescot, has an alabaster font of the Arts & Crafts movement of ca. 1900 [not included in this Index on account of its late date]]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.647, -2.726
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 38′ 49.2″ N, 2° 43′ 33.6″ W
UTM: 30U 518112 5944283

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lancashire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969