INCE-BLUNDELL, a township in the parish of
SEPHTON, hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of
LANCASTER, 85 miles (N. by W.) from Liverpool, containing
472 inhabitants. Attached to Ince hall, the
family seat of the Blundells, is a building called " The
Pantheon," erected by the late Henry Blundell, Esq., precisely
similar in its architecture and proportions to the
Pantheon at Rome, but one third less: it contains a
splendid collection of paintings, statuary, sarcophagi,
urns, and other relics of antiquity, procured by the
founder, and said to be unequalled by any similar collection
in the kingdom. Henry Blundell, Esq., in 1808,
gave a rent-charge of £ 10 for teaching ten children.