Lydiate / Ledeyate / Leiate / Lichet / Liddigate / Lidezate / Lidgate / Lydegate / Lydeyate / Lydyate

There is an entry for Lydiate [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SD3604/lydiate/] [accessed 11 September 2014], nut it reports neither cleric not church in it. English Heritage entry for the 19thC church [Listing NGR: SD3632605728] (1968) does not mention a font in it. The Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 3, 1907) notes: "To the south of the hall in an open field stands the ruined chapel called 'Lydiate Abbey.' It was dedicated in honour of St. Catherine. [...] Weather and the arch-enemy of ancient buildings, ivy, are slowly destroying its ruins. [...] Parts of a broken altar-slab lie in the church, enough remaining to show that the altar was 3 ft. 4 in. high by 8 ft. 6 in. long and 2 ft. 6 in. wide. [...] The date of the building is probably fixed by the initials on the porch of Lawrence Ireland, ob. before 1486, and Catherine (Blundell) his wife, though the details would suggest a later date, especially the absence of cusps in the window tracery. [...] The chapel was no doubt dismantled when the worship for which it was erected was prohibited by law. [...] Gregson in 1816 records that 'the neighbourhood still abounds with Catholic families, and mass is regularly performed in the old hall.' (fn. 112) This domestic chapel has been superseded by the church of St. Mary (commonly called 'Our Lady's'), built in 1854 by the late Thomas Weld Blundell, and consecrated in 1892." St. Thomas, the Anglican church, dates from the 19th century.