The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster . able church, the west end window (as well as thelower) escaped, and it has carved on the stone work, and the Barton • ^ The oldest and most interest- ing thing about the church is thetl • font, which in 1826 was taken out of the church and an alabaster onesubstituted for it; the present vicardiscovered it in 1889, at Barton cot-cottage, and restored it to its is of considerable antiquity—cer-tainly as old as the foundation of thechurch, and may possibly be verymuch older. Its dimens
The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster . able church, the west end window (as well as thelower) escaped, and it has carved on the stone work, and the Barton • ^ The oldest and most interest- ing thing about the church is thetl • font, which in 1826 was taken out of the church and an alabaster onesubstituted for it; the present vicardiscovered it in 1889, at Barton cot-cottage, and restored it to its is of considerable antiquity—cer-tainly as old as the foundation of thechurch, and may possibly be verymuch older. Its dimensions are ^ in. outside, and 2 ft. i in. insidediameter, thus leaving a rim or bor-der 2ii in-; it is in depth 18 in. out-side, and 11 in. inside. It is madeout of a sandstone boulder and is notperfectly round and has the appear-ance of being hatched work, the onlyattempt at ornamentation is a narrowbead running round the bottom ; onThe West Window. the rim are the two holes where These carvings on the screens and roof are taken from Whitakers Hist, of Ecclesiastical History. ?6/ staples were let in, to which the lid or cover was attached, and at the bottomis the hole for the disused water to be let off. Prior to the Reformation,fonts were nearly always not only covered but secured by lock and key, thiswas done in pursuance of the Constitutions of the Bishop of Salisbury, madeabout the year 1217. A font very similar to this was found in the church-
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