Barton-le-Street / Barton in Holdelelith / Bartone / Bartune / Bertona / Burton

There are two entries (one of which is multiple-place) for Barton [le Street] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE7274/barton-le-street/] [accessed 29 November 2019], one of which reports a church in it. Glynne's visit of 19 November 1863 (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font has a circular bowl, on square stem." [NB: is this the font now at Butterwick?]. Bulmer's Directory (1890) makes no mention of the old font and describes the one in the church simply as "modern, of a neat design, in carved Caen stone". Cox & Harvey (1907) write that a plain circular baptismal font of the Norman period existed in Barton-le-Street, "of good proportions and in excellent condition"; this font, however, "was flung aside, in 1871, when Barton-le-Street church was rebuilt. Dr. Cox found it sunk in a field in Slingsby parish as a cattle trough, and restored it to its proper use, in 1890, in Butterwick chapel. [cf. Index entry for Butterwick]. The Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The church of Barton is mentioned in the Domesday Survey. [...] The church was entirely rebuilt in the year 1871 in the 'Norman' style [...] On the external face of the nave wall, over the north doorway, eleven sculptured slabs of pre-Conquest date have been built into the facing." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The church of Barton is mentioned in the Domesday Survey [...] The church was entirely rebuilt in the year 1871 in the 'Norman' style, but portions of the chancel arch, the north doorway (the south doorway of the original church) and the outer doorway of the north porch (formerly the north doorway) have been reset in the new walls"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. The GENUKI web site refers that "the rector has this year (1889) recovered the old Norman font formerly in the parish church, but for some time degraded into a cattle trough at Slingsby, and has restored it to its original purpose in this chapel" [i.e., in the chapel-of-ease at Butterwick]. The present font [and the reredos] at Barton-le-Street are described in the GENUKI site as "modern, but of a neat design, in carved Caen stone". On-site notes: the present font dates from the 19th-century and is built "in the form" of a Norman square mounted font.