Bishop Wilton / Wiltone

There is an entry for Bishop Wilton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE7955/bishop-wilton/] [accessed 20 July 2014], and it mentions a church in it; the lordship and tenancy were, both in 1066 and in 1086, in the hands of the archbishop of York, hence the qualifier in the toponym. A font here is noted by Glynne in his 29 November 1865 visit (in Butler, 2007): "The font is a new one, the nowl octagonal, with foliage at the angles." A "neat octagonal font of Caen stone" is mentioned in Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire of 1892 [cited in GENUKI's entry for Bishop Wilton] as being located in the baptistery of this church. Bond (1908) mentions only that the centaur motif is part of the ornamentation of the Bishop Wilton font [NB: Bond's comment is made in the context of Norman fonts and may therefore refer to an earlier font in this locality]. The current baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin of straight sides, each ending below the lower rim on a protruding motif [floral?]; each of the side panels has a niche with a figure in it; the underbowl is plain except for the arrises marking the octagonal shape; the stem of the base is also octagonal and quite short, decorated at the upper end with a ring moulding with folral (?) motifs at the angles; the lower base is also octagonal and tapers out in a series of mouldings; the font is raised on a modern octagonal plinth with two-step kneeling stone. Two covers on this font: 1)towering cover in High Gothic style, of octagonal base with three levels; at the lower one, eight saints or priestly figures, each on its short pedestal base; in the middle, arches decorated with busy tracery; at the top the crocketed pinnacles of the arch tops join towards the finial; the cover is suspended from the ceiling [NB: not known whether fixed or moveable]; 2)flat wooden cover with metal ring handle; appears modern.] The tall cover is modern, the work of Temple Lushington Moore (1856-1920)