Warrington No. 2 / Walintune / Warington

INFORMATION

FontID: 16521WAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Elphin [formerly Chapel] of St. Elphin
Church Patron Saints: St. Elphin [dedicated to St. Helen at some point in his history?]
Church Location: Church Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 2TL
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located SE of Burtonwood
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Liverpool
Historical Region: Hundred of Warrington -- formerly in Lancashire
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font?
There is an entry for Warrington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ6088/warrington/] [accessed 14 July 2014] and it reports a church and churchlands in it. Kendrick (1875) refers to an introduction to 'Warrington in 1465' in the Transactions of the Chetam Society (vol. xvii), which informs that "the ancient font of the chapel is still preserved in the chapel at Lyme, and bears on one of its four sides the arms of Haydock." The Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 3, 1907) notes the church is pre-Conquest, with a Rector documented ca. 1180, but the present font is modern. Gastrell's 'Notitia Cestriensis' annotated by Raines (1845- ) mentions a font given by two stone-masons to the church [probably in the 17th century; this font not accounted for, either.] [NB: all other churches in Warrington are modern and have modern fonts]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.391, -2.5799
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 23′ 27.6″ N, 2° 34′ 47.64″ W
UTM: 30U 527938 5915850

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Gastrell, Francis, Right Rev., Notitia cestriensis, of historcal notices of the Diocese of Chester [...], Cheshire: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1845-1850