Bolton-le-Moors / Bolton St. Peter

No individual entry for this Bolton found in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 5, 1911) notes: "The church [...] is a handsome building in the style of the 14th century erected in 1867–71 [...] The former church, which stood on the same site, then at the extreme end of the town, was a low 15th-century building, consisting of chancel, nave with north and south aisles, south porch, and west tower [...] The old church was taken down in 1866. During the demolition several pre-Norman stones were found under the tower, including a cross in three pieces. [...] There were also fragments of two other crosses, part of another cross shaft, and two stones with rude carvings, probably belonging to the 11th century, together with fragments of 12th and 13th-century work, [...] a sepulchral slab, a stone coffin, and the remains of a recumbent female figure, apparently of the 14th century, showing that at least two stone churches of earlier date had existed on the same site"; a footnote in the VCH entry reports that a stone font was mentioned in a reply to the episcopal inquiry of 1665. The entry for this church in Historic Egnland [Listing NGR: SD7205209288] notes: "Parish church. 1867-71, replacing an earlier church", but mentions no font in it, probably implying that the one from the earlier church is not present in this building. [NB: according to the parish page [http://boltonparishchurch.co.uk/the-history-of-bolton-parish-church] [accessed 12 October 2018] the parish church of Bolton is St. Peter's, in Bolton-le-Moors, of which an early Anglo-Saxon edifice is known to have existed before the stone Norman building; this was re-built in the 15th century and demolished in the 1860s; we have no information on its early font(s)].