Backford

Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2003

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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

view of font

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 12241BAC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Church Patron Saints: St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Church Location: 16 Church Lane, Backford, City of Chester and West Cheshire CH2 4BE
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located on the A41, NW of Chester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chester
Historical Region: Hundred of Wirral
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font.
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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.2388, -2.9033
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 14′ 19.68″ N, 2° 54′ 11.88″ W
UTM: 30U 506454 5898840