Blackburn / Blacheburn [Donesday] / Blacheburne

There is an entry for Blackburn [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD6828/blackburn/] [accessed 13 March 2019]; it reports two churches and "2.25 church lands" in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lacaster, vol. 6, 1911) notes: "In 1066 the church of Blackburn had an endowment of 2 oxgangs of land [...] The [present] church is a modern Gothic stone-built structure, erected at the beginning of the 19th century, the foundation stone having been laid in 1820 and the consecration having taken place in 1826. [...] The building stands on the site of the old grammar school. The former church, which stood more to the north, [...] seems to have been a building originally of the 14th century, but much altered and renovated in the 16th. [...] The church probably took the place in the 14th century of a still older building, some of the materials of which were used in its erection; fragments of them, described as 'portions of arcuated stones with dog-tooth ornaments, the remains of a doorway, and sculptured Norman capitals,' were brought to light in 1820 when the fabric was demolished. [...] Whilst the new church was building a portion of the east end of the old church was left standing and used for baptisms, marriages and funerals. [...] The old tower stood in the churchyard till 1870. [...] The church was renovated and reseated in 1875, and a further renovation took place in 1905"; no font mentioned. The present font at this cathedral church is modern.