Ampleforth / Ambreford / Ambreforde / Ampreforde

There are two entries (one multiple place) for Ampleforth [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE5878/ampleforth/] [accessed 29 November 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The original aisleless nave appears to date from about the middle of the 12th century. The only details now remaining of this period are the north doorway, the stones of which have been reset in the north wall of the modern aisle, and the tower arch. The south doorway is later, and is a good example of early 13th-century work. [...] The font is apparently of 12th-century date, and consists of a fluted cylindrical bowl and plain stem divided by a chamfered necking, standing on a plinth of similar form." Morris (1931) dates it to the 12th century. Noted in Pevsner (1985): "Font. Norman, circular, with upright leaves, much like fluting." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5829578644] notes; "Church. 1868 by T.H. and F. Healey incorporating C12 to C14 features from former church on same site. [...] C12 circular font, fluted above central band, on chamfered base." The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with a moulding on the upper basin side and a faux-arcade of round arches [it is really a concave rib pattern imitating the more common arcade found on many Norman-period fonts]; the lower rim of the basin --or upper end of the base, for there is no clear definition of volumes here-- is a prominent roll moulding; the pedestal base is a cylinder as broad as the basin with a splaying lower base slightly broader still; it is not clear whether or not the font is monolithic, although basin and stem appear to be a single block of stone; there is a line of mortar (?) at the joint of the stem and lower base which appears to indicate that the lower base might be a separate block. Plain plywood cover.