Bispham / Biscopham / Bisespham

Bispham appears mentioned in the Domesday survey entry for Preston [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/poulton-le-fylde-and-little-poulton/] [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD3040/bispham/] [accessed 21 March 2019]; the entry reports three churches in it. Whitaker (1823) writes that the modernised church retained still a Norman doorway, but mentions no font in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 7, 1912) notes: "It appears to have been a parish church reduced to the condition of a chapel after its grant to Lancaster Priory. [...] The church appears to have been but irregularly served, either then or after the Restoration, when it again became a chapel under Poulton, being so described at the bishop's visitation in 1677. Ten years later, however, it was called 'the parish church of Bispham.' [The present church] is a stone building erected in 1883 on the foundations [...] of an older structure. [...] In 1686 a return of the minister and churchwardens of the parish of Bispham' to the bishop's articles of inquiry gives some interesting particulars. The fabric of the church was 'in good repair and decency'; there were a stone font [...] The register of baptisms begins in 1599". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD3190240578] notes: "Church, 1883, by John Lowe of Manchester: third building on the site of the original church of the parish of Bispham, until 1821 the only church in Blackpool; incorporates fragments of early C12th masonry" but mentions no font in it. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].