Newchurch-in-Pendle / Goldshaw Booth / Newchurch in Pendle Forest

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view of basin

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2009 by Diego's sideburns in Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/67168034@N00/3819431209/] [accessed 10 May 2010]
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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "St Mary's church, Newchurch in Pendle. The Grade-II* Historic England listing [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1361745] gives a building date of 1653 (during the Commonwealth??) whereas Pevsner claims that the tower is from 1564 (probably rebuilt later) and the rest of the building dates from 1740."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's church, Newchurch in Pendle. The Grade-II* Historic England listing [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1361745] gives a building date of 1653 (during the Commonwealth??) whereas Pevsner claims that the tower is from 1564 (probably rebuilt later) and the rest of the building dates from 1740."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Harrison, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2018 by Bill Harrison [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6047336] [accessed 15 March 2019]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 16519NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 15 Newchurch Village, Newchurch-in-Pendle, Burnley BB12 9JR, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km N of Burnley, 15-20 km NE of Blackburn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Blackburn
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: Late Medieval
Church Notes: present church 17th-18thC
Font Notes:
No individual entry for this Newchurch in the Domesday survey. The entry for this church in Hitsoric England [Listing NGR: SD8230439373] notes: "Church, tower 1653 and nave, north aisle and south porch 1740"; no font mentioned. Noted and illustrated in Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/67168034@N00/3819431209/] [accessed 10 May 2010]: "After being replaced with a more modern font, this font disappeared before being found in a farmer's field and returned to the Church." The object is a plain octagonal basin, so eroded by the elements that it appears round now.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.8503, -2.2705
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 51′ 1.08″ N, 2° 16′ 13.8″ W
UTM: 30U 547989 5967113

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal