Preston nr. Blackburn / Preston-in-Amunderness (Lancs.) [disappeared?]

No individual entry for this Preston found in the Domesday survey. Whitaker (1823) mentions an indirect reference to a font at Preston. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 7, 1912) notes: "It is possible that a church at Preston was one of those holy places deserted by the British clergy on the approach of the destroying English of Northumbria and about 670 granted with lands by the Ribble and elsewhere to St. Wilfrid. [...] Though its existence may be implied in the reference to churches in Amounderness in Domesday Book, [...] the first express record of it is that in the grant of Roger of Poitou to the abbey of Sees in 1094 [...] It was included in the grant of the hundred to Theobald Walter about 1191"; the entry adds that the present building "is a handsome building in the style of the 14th century, erected in 1853–5. The former church which stood on the same site was a low 16thcentury structure [...] Showing fresh symptoms of decay in the middle of the 19th century, the whole of the building, with the exception of the lower part of the tower, was pulled down in 1853, [...] and a new church erected on the old foundations." The present font is modern, of the mid-19th century re-building of the church, of a design by E. G. Paley. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].