Hickleton nr. Doncaster / Chicheltone

There is an entry for Hickleton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4805/hickleton/] [accessed 24 May 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Hunter (1828-1831) writes: "The font, which has the appearance of a truncated Saxon circular column of wide dimensions, is doubtless coeval with the oldest part of the edifice" [which he dates to "at least a century after the Conquest" [i.e., 1166+]. Noted in Glynne's 18 January 1860 visit to this church: "The font is early, the bowl circular, with Early English flowered moulding round the upper part." The National Gazetter of Gt. Britain and Ireland for 1868 informs: "The interior of the church contains an ancient font". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a 13th-century Early English font ornamented with a band of conventional foliage. Noted in Morris (1932): "Very massive, circular font, probably Trans[itional], of the date of the chancel arch [i.e., Norman], with an interesting four-leaved ornament." Mee (1941) notes: "massive Norman font with flowers round the rim." In Betjeman (1958) as a font of the Transitional period. Pevsner (1986 c1967), however, writes: "Font. Cylindrical, with a frieze of four-petalled flowers. Not apparently a font originally." Harman & Pevsner (2017), however, have: Font. C12 or C13. Cylindrical, with a frieze of four-petalled flowers". The font is tub-shaped, a roughly cylindrical basin with a roll moulding at the upper rim, and with a row of floral motif just below it; the squat base is moulded and circular, slightly wider than the bottom of the basin. The wooden font cover is roughly bucket-shaped and modern. [We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.genuki.org, for the photographs of this font]