Wharram-le-Street / Wharram-in-the-Street / Warham

There is an entry for Wharram [le Street] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE8665/wharram-le-street/] [accessed 15 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Glynne's 22 April 1842 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font is a cylinder." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE8639665925] mentions a "Norman tub font" in it. The font is tub-shaped, a plain bucket completely smooth except for a base-like protrusion at the very bottom; the inner well of the basin is lined with lead and has a central drain; there is damage to one of the sides of the upper rim, but it does not appear to correspond to the staples of the old cover. The old font is now raised on a small octagonal plinth and covered with a round flat cover on which stands a totally disproportionate cross on a three-step plinth [NB: the odd cover seen in 2006 photographs appears now (2017) to have been replaced by a less conspicuous and simpler flat and plain cover with a smaller latin cross on lot].