Skipton / Sciptone / Skipton-in-Craven

There is a multiple-place entry that includes Skipton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD9851/skipton/] [accessed 18 December 2022]; no mentions of cleric or church in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's August 1846 visit to this church, in Butler (2007): "The font has a large plain octagonal bowl chamfered below, on an octagonal stem and step; the cover of wood, Jacobean, lofty and hung from the roof" [i.e., ceiling?] Lewis' Directory of 1848 reports a "curiously sculptured" font in this church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described and ilustrated in Bond (1908) as a "Jacobean font", although the reference is really to the font cover, a grand three-volume octagonal affair; the two lower volumes are octagonal, the lower slightly wider than the next volume, and ornamented with windows of several typesd; the third and upper volume is pyramidal with cusped arrises and a round finial; it appears to work on a counterweight system. From the illustration shown in Bond, the Skipton font appears to have a plain bowl with a prominent upper rim and cut-away underbowl. The plainliness would match Morris' (1932) description: "Very plain font -- possibly Trans[itional]. Above is a Jacobean cover" [NB: Morris may refer to the "Transition" from the Decorated to the Perpendicular periods]. Mee (1941) notes: "The 12th century font has a fine Jacobean cover like a rich tower and spire." Betjeman (1958) too mentions the "Jacobean font cover". So does Pevsner (1986 c1967): "Font cover. A very fine Jacobean piece, octagonal, of two tiers with crocketed spire. The lower tier has openwork tracery decoration, the upper foliage." The 'Notes...' from Mrs. Hawthorne (1871: 8-14) corresponding to April 10, locate "a very old stone stone font" in "an Inner court od Skipton Castle, in the centre of which the great ancient yew-tree stands". The font cover is illustrated in James (1985). [NB: Glynne (in Butler, 2007), mentions a 'benetura' near the closed north door; Butler (ibid.) in his annotation of Glynne, notes that "the stoup was further uncovered in the 1909 restoration", but neither author gives an indication of its date]. The entry for this church in Historic England mentions the font cover but not the font itself [Listing NGR: SD9903951914]: "C14 and C15, repaired by Ann Clifford after the siege of Skipton in the Civil War [...] Jacobean font-cover".