Sedbergh / Sadberg / Sedberge

There is a multiple-place entry for Sebergh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD6592/sedbergh/] [accessed 7 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Whitaker (1823) notes that a 1330 document recorded the appropriation of the church here to the abbey of Coverham; he adds: "the present church of Sedberg, though the windows have been modernized, retains within much of the original fabric"; no font is mentioned in Whitaker. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "The font, a beautiful specimen of Garsdale marble, has been restored." Noted in Glynne's 7 May 1862 visit to this church, (in Butler, 2007): "The font has an octagonal bowl of black marble, with concave sides charged with shields, the stem also of marble with concave sides" [NB: Glynne (ibid.) mentions a stoup near the south door but does give further details]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD6571892077] notes: "Parish church. Mostly c1500, but incorporating fabric of various earlier periods; with major restoration 1886-7", but mentions no font in it. [NB: Sedbergh St. Gregory's is a later church of the 1860s built for the navvies during the height of the railway construction].