Bolton Percy / Bodetone

There is an entry for Bolton [Percy] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5341/bolton-percy/] [accessed 11 October 2018]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. Glynne in his 26 March 1825 visit (in Butler, 2007) notes: "The font has an elegant carved canopy." Bond (1908) provides information only on the font cover; he describes it as Jacobean, of "a common late type" which consists of "an octagonal lid moulded on the edge, which bears eight radiating trusses, rising from the angles and meeting at the head of a central baluster-shaped post, just below the finial, roughly suggesting a crown"; the part described by Bond [cf. supra] is actually the top of what is usually described as a rim-buffet font cover; it is raised on a counterweight pulley system. Noted in Morris (1932): "Old font -- perhaps Perp[endicular], with Jacobean cover. Mee (1941) notes: "12th century font with a Jacobean cover like a traceried lantern". Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font cover. Jacobean, and very handsome. Octagon with openwork tracery and scrolly top", but the Harman & Pevsner edition (2017) adds "Norman tub" to it. The RCHM (York, 1962- ) remarks on the similarity between the font cover of this font with that on the font at St. Martin's (Coney Street) in the city of York. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5317641278] reports a "Norman tub" in it. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes "the font which may contain 12th-century material [...] Of 12thc. or early 13thc. date (Bilson 1915, 117). The bowl and pedestal taper downwards and are carved from the same block. The stem is decorated with a horizontal roll moulding while the bowl has an incised groove just above its lower edge. Near-vertical tool marks are visible. The plinth, plain, with rough diagonal tooling, is of uncertain date."