Halton nr. Lancaster / Halchton / Halghton / Halgton / Halton-on-Lune / Haltun

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross

Scene Description: Source caption: "Halton Cross. This has been assembled from pieces of the original cross. Pevsner states that it is of the 11C, and it includes motifs from the Sigurd saga."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Humphrey Bolton, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 December 2007 by Humphrey Bolton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/641040] [accessed 3 April 2019]

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross - north side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Detail of Halton Cross. On the north face of the cross there is a rather nice horse. Pevsner states that it is Sigurd's horse, Grain."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 December 2007 by Humphrey Bolton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/641029] [accessed 3 April 2019]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian Taylor, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 December 2013 by Ian Taylor [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3787497] [accessed 3 April 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Platt, 2016

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 August 2016 by Philip Platt [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5095610] [accessed 3 April 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian Taylor, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 December 2013 by Ian Taylor [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3787496] [accessed 3 April 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16509HAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid
Church Patron Saints: St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith]
Church Location: Church Brow, Halton, Lancaster LA2 6LR , UK -- Tel.: 015248 22128
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A683 and the M6, 5 km NNE of Lancaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale -- Hundred of Amounderness [in Domesday]
Century and Period: 9th - 10th century, Pre-Conquest
There is an entry for this Halton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD5064/halton/] [accessed 3 April 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) notes: "The church may have existed before the Conquest, but the records do not go further back than 1190", that the tower is early-16th century; other traces of a church here in the 12th century, and earlier in the churchyard, have been found, pointing to the existence of an early [9th-10th century?] church here, The VCH refers to "visitation papers at Chester Dioc. Reg. show that in 1701 the church had 'a decent font, […]"; however, "The font and cover date from 1848." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s)].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.076, -2.761
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 4′ 33.6″ N, 2° 45′ 39.6″ W
UTM: 30U 515638 5992004

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1848
Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-10 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.