Rothwell nr. Leeds / Rodewelle / Wrothwell

There is an entry for this Rothwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE3428/rothwell/] [accessed 20 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Glynne's 23 January 1834 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is an octagonal basin, resembling that of Wakefield, with the date 1662, and surmounted by a high cover of wood." Noted in Smith (1881): "The font, erected shortly after the restoration, is octagonal with ornamented bordered panels, bearing the raised lettering and date C. R. 1662. R. W. VICARIUS, WROTHWELL, and the initials of seven churchwardens -- one for each township." Bond (1908) informs of a Post-Reformation font cover dated 1662 [NB: no mention made of the font itself]. Morris (1932) notes it as a Restoration font "of considerable interest" decorated with an inscription [cf. Inscription area] and a "the canopy is said to be contemporary." Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font. Octagonal, dated 1662, decorated mostly with the initials of the donors. Font cover. A splendid 'Jacobean' piece, although in all probability also of 1662. The octagonal stages with openwork decoration and a three-tier spire." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP8162081144] notes: "Parish Church. C12, C13, C14, C15, early C16. Spire collapsed 1660. Transepts cut down, 1673. Chancel restored 1848, the remainder restored between 1893 and 1910. [...] Fittings include unusual hexagonal C13 font with detached ringed angle shafts."