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INFORMATION

Font ID: 16917BIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1843?
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century, Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: Church Road, Bickerstaffe, Lancashire L39 0EB
Site Location: Lancashire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the M58, W of the A570 junction (#3), 6 km W of Selmersdale, SE of Ormskirk
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Liverpool
Historical Region: Hundred of West Derby
Font Notes:
The VCH (Lancaster, vol. 3, 1907) notes that "In 1650 the surveyors for the Commonwealth recommended that a church should be built in this township. [...] The church of Holy Trinity was built in 1843 by the earl of Derby, and enlarged in 1860." There appears to have been no earlier church in Bickerstaffe]. The late font is noted in Pollard & Pevsner (2006): "Font. Octagonal, with interlaced round arches." The Biritish Listed buildings database entry for Bickerstaffe Holy Trinity's [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-357784-church-of-holy-trinity-bickerstaffe] [accessed 29 September 2010] has a similar description, also without a date, obviously mid-19th century.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 510766 5931472
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.532057, -2.837573
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 31′ 55.41″ N, 2° 50′ 15.26″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Pollard, Richard, Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 147