Pilling
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font in the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2009
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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view of font
Scene Description: the 18th-century font in the old church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diego's sideburns, 2011
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 church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2009
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 church exterior - south view
![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]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1131103001_compressed.png)
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]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martinevans, 2012
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16525PIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1209?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Transitional
Church / Chapel Name: [St. John the Baptist Old Parish Church]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: School Lane, Pilling, Lancashire PR3 6HB [the old church site is located about 100 m. south of the new church]
Site Location: Lancashire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A588, E of Fleetwood, 15 km SW of Lancaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (of the medieval chapel here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 505852 5975765
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.930246, -2.910866
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 55′ 48.89″ N, 2° 54′ 39.12″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013, p. 92
- Hartwell, Clare, Lancashire North, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2009, p. 502