Skelton-in-Cleveland / Scheltun / Skelton and Brotton / Skelton in Bulmer

There is an entry for this Skelton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ6518/skelton/] [accessed 18 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox-Harvey (1907) list two Early English fonts under the placename Skelton in Yorkshire [NB: C&H (ibid.) have two entries for Skelton, one in the North Riding and another in the West Riding, but there is no Skelton in West Yorkshire after 1974; do they refer to two different fonts of the same period?]. Morris (1931) reports a font of the Early English period in All Saints' church. [NB: the original fabric of this church is usually dated to 1227, and Bulmer's Directory of 1890 cites a roll extract dated "on the 6th day of the Ides of December, A.D. 1427" confirming the donation [source: Transcription by Colin Hinson © 1999 in www.genuki.org.uk/nig/eng/YKS/NRY/Skelton/Skelton90.html]. The Topographical Dictionary of England of 1848 notes about All Saints': "The church is a small but very handsome edifice, a curious model of the early English style, with decorated portions; it is sometimes called Little St. Peter, having been built with the stone that remained after the erection of the south transept of York Minster" [source: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51280] [accessed: 17 June 2007]. The entry for the parish of Overton in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes on the church of All Saints at Skelton: "Though small in dimensions, as an example of early 13thcentury work it is unequalled by any other parish church in the county. The building was carefully restored in 1814 to 1818 [...] The font is contemporary with the church with an octagonal bowl chamfered back and cut into a number of facets on each side, the stem is a plain octagon and the base is moulded." The entry for All Saints' in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ6605818994] refers only to the new church: "Church 1884-85, by R.J. Johnston (Newcastle). [...] Octagonal stone font 1859, with enriched sides to bowl, on 2 steps." The old font, located in the NW corner of the nave of the old church and no longer in use, is monolithic and square, but with demi-columns at the four angles; the capitals of these angle columns have zigzag motif decoration, whereas the bases are scalloped; the sides have a large floral motif on the upper area and two similar but smaller ones below, but the larger ones have ball or bead motif between the 'petals'; the lower base is plain and appears cemented over. The flat octagonal cover is old, with the original locking mechanism. The font in use at present [April 2007] is located in the SW corner of the nave of the old church, by the S entrance; it consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with a closed floral pattern all around; the upper rim chamfer has a running inscription in English; the stem and lower base are octagonal and have moulding ornamentation; there is another inscription, also in English, around the lower base. The later font is probably 19th-century, of the 1884 re-building.