Scawton / Sacaltun / Scaltune

There are two entries for Scawton [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE5483/scawton/] [accessed 3 December 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; "A chapel here was built by the monks of Byland in the time of Roger, the second abbot (1142–96) [...] The chapel must have obtained the status of a parish church towards the close of the 13th century [...]; in 1279 it is styled the 'church or chapel,' and in 1291 [...] it is entered with other parish churches in the deanery. [...] The church was built about the middle of the 12th century [...] The font is of early 13thcentury workmanship. It has a round bowl with an edge roll around the top edge, below which it bulges out. The stem is octagonal and the base moulded, both apparently contemporary with or little later than the bowl." Morris (1931) notes a "circular font on octagonal base." The Scawton St. Mary's web site notes that the font was originally from Old Byland [source: www.upperryedale.org.uk/scawton.htm]. Pevsner (1985) does not mention the font itself but the 17th-century font cover: "The shape of a straight-sided bell or a high hat, though octagonal. At the top an ornamental but serviceable handle." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5489683590] notes: "Church. C12 with C15 insertions and porch and restoration of 1892 [...] Font: round, possible Norman on later base, with tall octagonal C17 wooden cover. " Baptismal font consisting of a roughly cylindrical basin with an upper rim moulding, and a slightly rounded underbowl, raised on an octagonal pedestal base of later date and a circular plinth. The sides of the basin have been re-tooled and, to judge by the disastrous state of the upper rim and the obvious patches on the sides, much repaired; lead-lined inner well. The wooden font cover is curiously shaped, a truncated octagonal pyramid with a curious ribcage-like finial, apparently a handle. [cf. BSI entry for Old Byland for another early font there].