Backford
Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2003
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Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2003 [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adie Jackson, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 November 2007 by Adie Jackson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/623520] [accessed 12 December 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12241BAC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Church Address: 16 Church Lane, Backford, City of Chester and West Cheshire CH2 4BE, UK
Site Location: Cheshire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A41, NW of Chester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chester
Historical Region: Hundred of Wirral
Additional Comments: disappeared font (the original font of the 13th-century church)
Font Notes:
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Ellis (1902) mentions Backford as one of the churches in the Wirral without medieval font. The present font at St. Oswald's dates from ca. 1879 [source: "St. Oswald's Church in the Parish of Backford' by John Peter Hess (1998), in www.mollingtonvillages.co.uk]. An earlier font from this church is noted in Thornber: "Former font now in the churchyard" [source: www.thornber.net]. The font in the churchyard has an inscription around the side of the basin containing the date 1733 [NB: the church was re-done in 1728-1731, and again in the late 1870s; the font in the yard must therefore originate from the 18th-century renovation -- we have no information on the font from the original late-13th-century church].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 506454 5898840
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.2388, -2.9033
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 14′ 19.68″ N, 2° 54′ 11.88″ W