Batley No. 1 / Bateleia

There is an entry for Batley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2424/batley/] [accessed 3 October 2018]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. Cox-Harvey (1907) note that a font of the Norman period was located in the churchyard [ca. 1907]. We do not have any source for Cox & Harvey's statement regarding the presence of a Norman font here, but Michael Sheard's Records of the Parish of Batley in the County of York [...] (Worksop, 1894): 24-25, notes: "The font came in for a share of Puritanical aversion, and was cast out. They considered anything that would hold water good enough for the baptismal service, and placed it near the pulpit, a rule still observed by Nonconformists. In a few churches, {as at Colton, Lancashire) it has not been replaced in its original position at the west end. [...] The old font in Batley Church being destroyed the present one was placed in its proper position at the Restoration in 1662 as shown by the date upon it." If Sheard is correct and the old font had already been destroyed ca. 1894, why Cox&Harvey's statement? No mention of it in Glynne's notes of his 2 December 1858 visit; not in Morris (1932). This font is not mentioned in Harman & Pevsner (2017).