Altham No. 1 / Alvetham / Elvetham

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view of church exterior - south porch

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 January 2018 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/660506] [accessed 14 March 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St James Church, Altham. The church was founded in Norman times though the earliest part of this building dates back to the 15th Century. Most of it dates from a Victorian rebuild." EXT S PORCH digital photograph taken 15 January 2018 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/660506] [accessed 14 March 2019]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Boaden, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 November 2013 by Bill Boaden [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3737871] [accessed 14 March 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16491ALT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James [formerly St. Mary]
Church Patron Saints: St. James [formerly St. Mary]
Church Location: Burnley Rd, Altham, Accrington BB5 5UN, UK -- Tel.: 01254 883023
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off the A678, N of Huncoat, 8 km W of Burnley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Blackburn
Font Location in Church: In the S porch [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut], Norman [altered]
No individual entry found for Altham in the Domesday survey. The entry for this township in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 6, 1911) notes: "The south porch has been rebuilt and is very plain in character with a wide four-centred arch with flatpitched gable over. In the north-east corner is what appears to be an early font now mutilated, rent away on one side so as to form a seat." Noted in Hartwell & Pevsner (2009): "an ancient broken tub font" in the re-built south porch. [cf. Index entry for Altham No. 2 for a late medieval font in use in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.7936, -2.348
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 47′ 36.96″ N, 2° 20′ 52.8″ W
UTM: 30U 542949 5960755

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-04-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Hartwell, Clare, Lancashire North, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2009