Leyland / Lailand / Leiland / Leilaund / Leylond

There are four entries for Leyland [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD5422/leyland/] [accessed 11 March 2019] one of which reports a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 6, 1911) notes: "The church of Leyland was given to Evesham Abbey by Warine Bussel, baron of Penwortham, and the gift was enlarged by Richard Bussel, his son, in the first half of the 12th century", and reports "portions of 12th-century masonry" found in the 19th-century excavation work on the foundations; the font, howver, is reported as modern. [NB: modern too is the font at St. Ambrose, as well as the other fonts of Leyland churches]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD5411121591] notes: "Church, consisting of C14 chancel, C15 west tower, and nave of 1817"; no font mentioned.