Arkholme / Argholme / Argun / Erghum / Ergum / Ergune / Erwhum / Erwom / Hergun

There is an entry for Arkholme [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey, an entry for over a dozen places [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD5872/arkholme/] [accessed 4 April 2019], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this township in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) notes: "The origin and dedication of the chapel at Arkholme are unknown. [...] the building [...] appears to be of late 15th or early 16th-century date [...] The registers begin in 1626. [...] The font is modern, but the 18th-century one is in the churchyard." The Parish website [http://www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/arkholme.htm] [accessed 3 May 2010] notes the move of the 18th-century font into the church since the VCH report: "A church is known to have existed at Arkholme around 1450: a time when the village was known as Erwhum […] At the east end of the church are two fonts. The oldest is a small C18 bowl on a heavy base. The newer font (is it C20?) is quite the reverse - a large octagonal, panelled bowl on a very slight column and base! The cover of this font commemorates the last of the Arkholme basket makers, Charlie Ireland, who died in 1959." Hartwell & Pevsner (2009) note both fonts inside the church, and described the 20th-century as "ill proportioned". [NB: we have no information on the late-medieval font]