Pilling

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the old parish church OLD PILLING 18THC FONTx2 digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by Diego's sideburns [www.flickr.com/photos/diego_sideburns/6297753729/in/photostream/] [accessed 28 October 2013] CCL NEW PILLING EXT W digital photograph taken 28 October 2009 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1563142] [accessed 28 October 2013] NEW PILLING FONT digital photograph taken 28 October 2009 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/156313168] [accessed 28 October 2013]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2012 by Martinevans [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Old_St_John%27s,_Pilling_-_front_full.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2013]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: the modern church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 October 2009 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1563142] [accessed 28 October 2013]

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view of font

Scene Description: the 18th-century font in the old church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by Diego's sideburns [www.flickr.com/photos/diego_sideburns/6297753729/in/photostream/] [accessed 28 October 2013]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font in the modern church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 October 2009 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/156313168] [accessed 28 October 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16525PIL

Church/Chapel: [St. John the Baptist Old Parish Church]

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: School Lane, Pilling, Lancashire PR3 6HB [the old church site is located about 100 m. south of the new church]

Country Name: England

Location: Lancashire, North West

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A588, E of Fleetwood, 15 km SW of Lancaster

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn

Date: ca. 1209?

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Transitional

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No individual entry found for Pilling in the Domesday survey. The entry for this township in the Victoria County Histoty (Lancaster, vol. 7, 1912) notes: "The petition presented to the Bishop of Chester in 1716 records an 'ancient tradition' that the old chapel was built in or about 1209", but "In 1650 the chapel was vacant, and there was no proper maintenance"; a larger chapel here "was buil in 1717" and a "new church was built in 1887"; no font mentioned. Hartwell & Pevsner (2009) note the old church is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, and it has simple 18th- and 19th-century furnishings. The font here is urn-shaped, made of sandstone in the 18th century. Byrne (2013) informs that there was a medieval chapel here before this old church as built in 1717; it was a chapel-of-ease "to the parish church at Garstang, and was served by the monks of Cockersan Abbey about 6 miles to the north". [NB: we have no information on the older baptismal font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.930246, -2.910866

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 55′ 48.89″ N, 2° 54′ 39.12″ W

UTM: 30U 505852 5975765

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-04-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013

Hartwell, Clare, Lancashire North, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2009