Darley Dale No. 2 / Darley / Dereleie

There is a multiple-place entry for Darley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK2762/darley/] [accessed 3 February 2020]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Bond (1908) dates this font to the post-Reformation period and calls it one of the better pseudo-Gothic horrors whose mason would have been put in the stocks by any Christian parish in the 15th century. Pevsner (1978), however, seems to accept at face value: "octagonal, Perp[endicular], with tracery motifs similar to Hartington." On-site notes: basin sides decorated ornamented with blank shields and gothic ornamental motifs; looks modern; the dating of this work needs to be checked in the church records; there are marks in the rim indicating an earlier lid cover. [cf. Index entry for Darley Dale No. 1 for an earlier Norman basin in he same church]