Ormskirk No 2 / Ormeskierk / Ormeskirk / Ormiskirk

No individual entry found for Ormskirk in the Domesday survey. Dixon (1878) reports finding the base of a font buried in the church: "On the north side of the main pier of the spire, below the recent floor, was found a square base with a quatrefoil moulding on its surface, which seems beyond a doubt to have been the base of a now lost font, belonging to the Early English enlargement of the building." Dixon (ibid.) further reports: "The base just named stands within the westernmost bay of the nave, on the south side of the church, and to the right hand within the entrance through the spire, the arch of which has been cut away to make a stair approach to the organ loft and south gallery." Ellis (1902) refers to a paper in an earlier issue of the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire (1877-1878) in which "Mr. James Dixon refers to a fragment of what appears to have been a Norman font, inserted in the external wall of the eastern gable of the church. I have not been able to discover this fragment; and what the author of the same paper believes to have been the base of an E[arly] E[nglish] font, which was discovered on the north side of the main pier of the spire, appears to have been covered up or destroyed during the restoration of the church.