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The Victoria County History (Lancaster. vol. 4, 1911) notes: "In or before 1356 there was built, perhaps at the cost of the town, the larger chapel of Our Lady and St. Nicholas, which then became the chapel of Liverpool." Baines (1824) records the font in the church at the time: "The only piece of antiquity in this church is the font, which is of marble, with a cover or cap on which is a curious composition in the form of the ancient crosses, and bearing the date of the year of the siege, namely, 1644." [NB: the church dated originally from the mid-14th century, but was said to have been built over an earlier chapel; this font and cover were probably destroyed in 1940 [cf. infra]. The National Monuments Record (English Heritage) [www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?pid=1&id=213868] [accessed 10 May 2010] notes: "Tower is now the oldest part, built 1811-15 […] The rest of the church is 1952 by Edward C Butler, after war damage, in Perpendicular Gothic." [NB: a wartime air raid practically destroyed this church in December 1940]. The present replacement font, probably of the 1952 re-building, is octagonal, with carvings.