Bradshaw / Bradeshagh

No individual entry found for Bradshaw in the Domesday survey. The tower is listed in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD7356812231] with date 1640. The entry for this township in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 5, 1911) notes: "A chapel is supposed to have existed at Bradshaw before the Reformation, but nothing is known of its history [...] It was rebuilt about 1640 [...] it was 'a mean and dilapidated structure,' but was rebuilt in 1872 in the Early English style, and is known as St. Maxentius'. [...] The ivy-grown tower of the old building of 16th or 17th century date still stands in the churchyard to the west of the present church. Formerly it was little more than a domestic chapel for the Bradshaws and their tenants [...] A parish was assigned to it in 1853"; no font mentioned. The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin the panels of which are framed in a thick moulding; some of the panels are blank but one has the date 1550 inscribed on it; the panel to the right includes a small church building; the upper rim moulding(s) are damaged and eroded; the pedestal base is a modern replacement. No cover present.