Caton / Caton-with-Littledale / Catun / Town End
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - looking west
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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?]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12569CAT
Church/Chapel: Parochial chapel of St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Paul
Church Location: Caton Green Rd, Caton w/ Littledale LA2 9JL , UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
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]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1245?
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Early English
Church Notes: original chapel mid-13thC; re-built with tower 16thC; re-buil mid-19thC
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.0753,
-2.7011
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 4′ 31.08″ N,
2° 42′ 3.96″ W
UTM: 30U 519557 5991941
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
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
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
