Claughton / Clacton / Clactun [Domesday] / Claghton / Clagton / Clahton / Clauton

Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2007

CC-BY-SA-2.0

Results: 1 records

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Chad's Church, Claughton, Lancaster. This church seemed not to be used even though part of the churchyard was very well kept, with the other part being overgrown".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2007 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/325760] [accessed 5 April 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 16499CLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Chad [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd, Ceoddi]
Church Location: Unnamed Rd, Claughton, Lancaster LA2 9SA, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off the A683, 11 km ENE of Lancaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale -- Hundred of Amounderness [in Domesday]
Date: ca. 1070?
Century and Period: 11th century, Early Norman
Church Notes: "The doors of a small north Lancashire village church have closed after almost a thousand years of worship. A church has stood on the site of St Chad's of Claughton since around 1100, but in recent years the number of worshippers at Sunday services had dwindled to single figures. And with a substantial amount of money needing to be spent on the fabric of the building, the Church of England decided the place of worship should be closed. [...] The building has been handed over to the diocese to try to find an alternative use for it." [source: Lancashire Telegraph, issue of 31 Oct 2002 [www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/archive/2002/10/31/Lancashire+Archive/5938710.End_of_era_for___church/] [accessed 4 October 2011]]
An entry in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD5666/claughton/] [accessed 5 April 2019] includes Claughton and over a dozen other places; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis (1848) notes: "The original church was built in 1070; the present edifice in 1815.". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancashire, vol. 8, 1914) reports the Church of St. Chad as having been "erected in 1815 on the site of an older building, of which the east window is the only part now remaining.[...] The church was restored in 1904 [...] The interior has no features of antiquarian or architectural interest, [...] all the fittings being modern. In the vestry, however, is preserved an oak communion table dated 1636, and there are a portion of a trefoiled window head and an 18th-century classic font. The font in use was given by Canon Grenside when curate here in 1855." [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.0931, -2.6641
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 5′ 35.16″ N, 2° 39′ 50.76″ W
UTM: 30U 521969 5993932

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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, 1848-1849