Ulverston / Ulurestun / Ulvrestun / Olvaston / Ulvaston / Olverston

There is an entry for Ulvesrton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD2878/ulverston/] [accessed 22 February 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Whiteker (1823) remarks: "The origin of the church in Ulverston is enveloped in the same obscurity which generally attaches to the subject", but adds that it was likely part of the parish of Dalton, its mother church; it is documented ca. 1200; the present church, however, is a restoration in the reign of Henry VIII [i.e., 1509-1547]; it mentions no font in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) notes: "The earliest part of the building is the south doorway, which is of 12th-century date and belongs to a church all other traces of which have vanished. The tower is of 16th-century date, but the rest of the building is modern, having been erected at different times during the 19th century [...] the font and pulpit belong to the later restorations and all the other fittings are modern." The baptismal font in use is modern, Victorian: an octagonal basin with decorated sides, raised on a pedestal base. There is no mention of a font in Pevsner (1969). [NB: according to the Parish' own web site, the original church is believed to have been built in 1111, then rebuilt in the mid 16th century with a new tower; the building was restored at the beginning of the 19th, and then in the mid-19th by E.G. Paley, the Lancastrian architect]