Elton nr. You;greave / Eltune

There is an entry for this Elton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK2261/elton/] [accessed 13 May 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox (1875-1877) reports a "small modern font, which the execrable taste of the past generation thought preferable to that unique relic which was in the old chapel, and which has now found shelter at Youlgreave" [NB: the location given for the modern font is the Vicarage garden]. Cox (ibid.) further notes that "the lord of the manor, the late Mr. Thornhill, caused an exact facsimile of the ancient font to be sculptured, which now stands in the church of Elton." Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1881 as a facsimile of the Norman original font that had been moved to Youlgreave. Bond (1908): "This font has a curious history. It was originally in the neighbouring chapel-of-ease at Elton. This was wrecked by the fall of the spire, and its font was removed to his garden by the Vicar of Youlgreave in 1838. In 1848 a new base and new shafts were provided for it, and it was placed in Youlgreave Church. In 1870 the Elton people claimed it, but they were pacified by the present of a facsimile of it. -W.M." Noted in Pevsner (1978) [NB: cf. Index entry for Youlgreave for the record of the original font]. Cox (1875-1877) remarks of the presence in the churchyard of a "curious hollowed stone [...] five feet long [...] depth of six inches [...]" which some had suggested "that it once served as a font for immersion"; Cox (ibid.) rejects this and suggests that it had instead "some domestic or agricultural" function].