Woodplumpton / Plumptom / Plunton / Pluntun / Wodeplumptom

[Wood]Plumpton [variant spelling 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/SD4934/woodplumpton/] [accessed 29 March 2019]; the entry reports three churches in it. The entry for this township in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 7, 1912) notes: "The piety of Richard son of Roger makes it probable that a chapel existed in his demesne before 1200. Though this is confirmed by remains in the building, there seems to be no direct documentary evidence [...] of the chapel till 1552, when its 'ornaments' were seized for the king. [...] About the same time it was locally styled a 'church.' [...] The oldest part of the building is the western half of the north aisle wall, in which there are a window of c. 1300 and a door of about 100 years later [...] now in use is a modern one (1901) of red sandstone. An old round font, found some years ago at the back of the church, fell into the hands of a local mason, by whom it was re-cut, re-chiselled and reduced to octagon form, all vestiges of its original character being destroyed. It now stands outside, to the north of the turret."