Whitewell

INFORMATION

FontID: 12826WHI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Extra-parochial chapel of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Country Name: England

Location: Lancashire, North West

Directions to Site: "Whitewell was an extra-parochial part of the parish of Whalley" [www.thornber.net] -- located 11 km WNW of Clitheroe

Historical Region: formerly West Riding of Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an old font" in this church without any other detail [NB: Lewis locates Whitewell in the West Riding of Yorkshire; it is located right at the border between this and Lancashire, and appears listed in Lancashire Parish Portal [www.lancashireparishcouncils.gov.uk] [accessed 16 March 2007]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

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