Lowick nr. Broughton-in-Furness / Laufwik / Lofwic / Lofwik / Lowyk

No individual entry found for this Lowick in the Domesday survey. The entry for this township in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) refers to an allegation by Alan of Towers in 1292 "that he was wont to find his own chaplain to celebrate divine service daily in his chapel of St. Andrew in Lowick, the chaplain receiving the oblations and the candles given at the baptism of children and churching of women in return for 12 acres of land which the Prior of Conishead held of the grant of Alan's ancestors"; it later adds: "The chapel was rebuilt in 1817, [...] and this was replaced by the present St. Luke's, built on the old site in 1885. The parochial chapelry was made into a district chapelry in 1866." A footnote in the same VCH entry reports that, as a result of an earlier visitation inquiries, "it appears that considerable repairs were made about 1700, though then 'lately old and ruinous.' There was no font in 1707, though there were a communion table (not railed) and a bell. A stone font is named in 1729." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original parochial chapel here].