Little Leigh / Leia / Little Legh / Legh-juxta-Barterton / Leigh-justa-Barterton

INFORMATION

FontID: 16924LEI
Church/Chapel: Chapel [disappeared]
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: The old chapel used to be in the area that became the churchyard of the 19th-century Church of St. Michael & All Angels [Coordinates: 53° 16′ 44.4″ N, 2° 34′ 41.88″ W 53.279, -2.5783] [Diocese of Chester]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Gastrell (1845- ) notes that an ancient chapel here was "repaired by ye Inhab.[itants]" in 1664, but was by 1717 [the date of Gastrell's original edition] "old and Ruinous"; In 1720 it was rebuilt, again by the locals, but had neither a font, nor were the Sacraments administered, and there were no burials at the time, though, Gastrell adds, "Divine Service [was] performed in it, 1724". [NB: the present church, St. Michael and All Angels was built in 1879, its churchyard occupies the site of the old chapel -- we have no information on whether a font ever existed in this chapel]

REFERENCES

Gastrell, Francis, Right Rev., Notitia cestriensis, of historcal notices of the Diocese of Chester [...], Cheshire: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1845-1850