Eccleston nr. Chester / Eclestone

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Victorian High Gothic building of 1899 replaced an earlier churc

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2013 by Jeff Buck [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StMarysEccleston.JPG] [accessed 12 March 2019]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church Eccleston, Old Churchyard - View of what remains of the old parish church and the Grosvenor family graves".

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2015 by ViennaUK [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_Church_Eccleston,_Old_Churchyard_-_old_parish_church_and_Grosvenor_family_graves.JPG] [accessed 12 March 2019]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font and cover in the modern baptistery of the Victorian High Gothic church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ViennaUK, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2015 ViennaUK [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_Church_Eccleston,_Baptistery.JPG] [accessed 12 March 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12243ECC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Rd, Eccleston, Chester CH4 9HT, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A55, SSE of Chester
Historical Region: Hubdred of Duddeston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1188?
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church Notes: original church ca. 1188; re-built 14thC; demolished and re-built 1809; present church a re-building of the earlier one of 1809
There is an entry for Eccleston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ4162/eccleston/] [accessed 12 March 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church here. Thornber [www.thornber.net] notes: "the font has a huge elaborate cover". [no photo or info - same source: earlier church dating from 1809 replaced by Victorian High Gothic building of 1899 -- font and cover likely 19thC]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.1576, -2.8794
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 9′ 27.36″ N, 2° 52′ 45.84″ W
UTM: 30U 508064 5889809