Stillington / Stivelincton / Stivelinctun

There is an entry for Stillington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE5867/stillington/] [accessed 13 December 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Bulmer's Directory (1890) informs the "a new font was added in 1871, and the old octagonal one now stands under the tower". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The church was so largely rebuilt and altered in 1840 that little indication of its history is left. None of the existing features, however, are older than the 15th century"; it mentions no font in it. The Stillington and District Community Archive [http://www.stillingtoncommunityarchive.org/stnicholaschurch.asp] [accessed 21 November 2010] notes: "A new font was given to the memory of Mrs.Caroline Haffenden, the daughter of Admiral William Croft, in 1871. However on 22nd October 1932 it was taken out, with the old font brought back into use from where it had been stored behind the main entrance door. After a period out of doors the Haffenden font was transferred to Wass Church. The old octagonal one (believed to be Norman) used to stand under the tower." The font in use at present [May 2010] is a strange one, perhaps the altered original font of this church [cf. supra] but much re-cut; the basin is round at the top, and splays out to an octagonal shape with vertical sides, all plain; raised on a narrower pedestal base, modern, and a narrow and long polygonal plinth, also modern. The wooden cover, round and flat, has a flat cross shape with ring handle atop; modern as well.