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Scene Description: Source caption: "St Stephen's Church, Tockholes. This arch is probably part of the rebuilt church of 1833 and was incorporated in the rebuilding of the 1960s church".
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/990709] [accessed 13 March 2019]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/990701] [accessed 13 March 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 22030TOC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Stephen [formerly from the disappeared Parochial Chapel?]
Church Location: [NB: address and coordenates are for the modern church] Rock Ln, Tockholes, Darwen BB3 0LX , UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located between the M65 (N) and the A675 (S), S of Blackburn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blacburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Blackburn
Font Location in Church: Inside the modern church
Century and Period: 15th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Church Notes: St Stephen's is the latest re-building (1965) of the late-medieval parochial chapel here
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No individual entry found for Tockholes in the Domesday survey. The entry for this township in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vo. 6, 1911) notes: "The old chapel is supposed to have been built late in the 15th century. [...] The church was rebuilt in 1833 and is called St. Stephen the Martyr's;" no font mentioned. There is inside the new church a baptismal font consisting of a tall and narrow basin of octagonal shape with moulded arrises; it stands on a modern octagonal base. The old basin may well be the one from the late-medieval chapel here.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.70596,
-2.5169
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 42′ 21.46″ N,
2° 31′ 0.84″ W
UTM: 30U 531890 5950916
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal