Almondbury / Almaneberie / Almondeberie

There is an entry for Almondbury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE1615/almondbury/] [accessed 24 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here was noted in Glynne's visit on 18 January 1855 (in Butler, 2007): "The font is poor, an octagonal bowl, but with the fine lofty wood cover of tabernacle work." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Bond (1908) describes the cover as a "fine Gothic example" but does not mention the font itself. Morris (1932) writes: "Plain octagonal font, , surmounted by a very handsome post-Gothic canopy - yet it is not in detail Jacobean." Mee (1941) notes: "the fine tall cover of the old font is the work of the 16th and 17th centuries." The cover alone is mentioned in Betjeman (1958): "Jacobean font cover". Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font cover. Perp[endicular], and one of the best in the country. Three tiers of close canopies agaisnt the solid polygonal core." [NB: the font, unless there are two, appears to be of the chalice-shaped octagonal-mounted type, and therefore very unlikely Norman -- to be resolved]. The font-cover is noted also in Howard & Crossley (1919) and Harman & Pevsner (2017).