Caton / Caton-with-Littledale / Catun / Town End
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: two sources [cf. FontNotes] report an Early-English font here but this font appears modern [is it re-carved?]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2069259] [accessed 2 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2005
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 September 2005 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/648902] [accessed 2 April 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2069227] [accessed 2 April 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2069267] [accessed 2 April 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12569CAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1245?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parochial chapel of St. Paul
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Paul
Church Notes: original chapel mid-13thC; re-built with tower 16thC; re-buil mid-19thC
Church Address: Caton Green Rd, Caton w/ Littledale LA2 9JL , UK
Site Location: Lancashire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A683, 8 km ENE of Lancaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale -- Hundred of Amounderness [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: re-cycled font / re-used font
Font Notes:
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Caton [variant spelling] is one of over a dozen places mentioned in a Domesday entry [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD5364/caton/] [accessed 1 April 2019], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Raines annotation to Gastrell's original entry of 1717 for Caton's church (1845- ) reads: "The Font is of Early English design." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports that "the beautiful Saxon gateway and the font alone remain [from] the ancient chapel built about the year 1245". The Open Churches Trust [www.openchurchestrust.org.uk/Churches/Caton.htm] [accessed 3 May 2010] notes a "font, carved from solid stone" in this church. A leaflet of 1967 [http://www.priory.lancs.ac.uk/caton1.html] [accessed 30 September 2010] has information on the font cover: "The panelling of the Font Cover is the work of a former Incumbent, The Reverend W. J. Locke, vicar from 1895 to 1911", but does not mention the font. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD5421764607] notes: "Church, 1865-7 by Paley, with tower probably C16th, and with Norman remains"; no font mentioned.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 519557 5991941
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.0753, -2.7011
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 4′ 31.08″ N, 2° 42′ 3.96″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Gastrell, Francis, Right Rev., Notitia cestriensis, of historcal notices of the Diocese of Chester [...], Cheshire: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1845-1850, vol. 2, pt. 3: 439fn
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50861] [accessed 23 January 2007]