Gilling East No. 1 / Gellinge / Ghellinge

There are two entries for Gilling [East] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE6176/gilling-east/] [accessed 11 November 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or font in it. Paley (1844) reports a font "of undoubtedly Norman date consist[ing] simply of a low cylindrical stone, either plain, as at Gilling, Yorkshire [...]". The entry for the parish of Gilling in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: " Though no detail remains of so early a date, portions of the north and south walls of the nave probably belong to a church of the 11th century and aisles were added circa 1190, to which date the nave arcades belong [...] Early in the 19th century the north porch was added, and in recent years the church has been considerably restored [...] At the west end of this [south] aisle are the remains of a 13th-century tub font. The font now in use is modern. In the tower is a fragment of a 10th-century carving of the Crucifixion, the upper part of which is missing. Described and illustrated in Gill & Adrian Smith [www.nyrond.org/university/heraldry...] based on the information from the church guide: "The font now in use is modern. In the south aisle are the remains of a tub font [...], very plain and crude. Gill in his 'Vallis Eboracensis' refers to the font at Gilling as being "rude and crumbling" and of "extreme antiquity". This old font was dug up in the churchyard and may be the one referred to by Gill [...]". The font thus described is indeed a roughly cylindrical tub-font with about a third of the side missing, possibly Norman. Inside it has been placed a hemispherical stone basin, also plain, which probably does not belong to it, although it appears to be some sort of a piscina or stoup with a central drain in it. [NB: a suggestion in the above source that a notch on the rim side may have been "cut away, perhaps to take the baby's head" does not tally with any of the font construction practices of the period]. [There are three fonts in Gilling East: 1)this one, found in the churchyard; 2)a font font found in the Wood family garden [listed as Gilling East No. 2]; 3)a marble font in use at the church now [not listed here]]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE6160076902] notes; "Church. Arcade of c1200, early C14 chancel, C14 south arcade, late C15 tower, C19 organ chamber and restoration"; it mentions no font in it.