Pocklington / Poclinton

There is an entry for Pocklington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE8048/pocklington/] [accessed 31 July 2014]; it reports a priest and a church in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's November 1855 (or 1865?) visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a square bowl, upon a stem, with convex sides and Perpendicular tracery, and buttresses at the angles." This church is, however, listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) with a baptismal font of the Norman period. Ditto in Hobson (1924). The explanation to this difference is probably in Bulmer's county Directory of 1892: "The font - a piece of Norman work, consisting of a square basin of fossil marble on a circular pedestal - has also been thoroughly renovated". English Heritage [Listing NGR: SE8023048974] (1967) notes: "Church. C12 or earlier nave, C13 transepts, C15 west tower and chancel, south porch rebuilt C19 using old materials. [...] Late C12 font reset in C19 on central column with four black shelly marble columnettes." The basin stands now [April 2009] on a five-column base raised on a two-step quadrangular lower base, all of it looking very much of Victorian design; only the square basin remains from the original font. The wooden cover is square and flat.