Bidston / Bidston cum Ford

INFORMATION

FontID: 18257BID

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Oswald

Church Patron Saints: St. Oswald of Nothumbria

Church Location: Bidston Village Road, Bidston, Wirral, CH43 7QT

Country Name: England

Location: Cheshire, North West

Directions to Site: Located in Birkenhead, the Wirral

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chester

Historical Region: Hundred of Wirral

Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

Ellis (1902) notes the font here as not medieval [NB: we have no information on the font from the original 13th-15th century church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.4024, -3.0671

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 24′ 8.64″ N, 3° 4′ 1.56″ W

UTM: 30U 495539 5917038

REFERENCES

Ellis, John W., "The Mediaeval Fonts of the Hundreds of West Derby and Wirral", LVIII (New series: XVII), Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1902, pp. 59-80; p. 80