Acaster Selby / Acastre

There are two entries for Acaster [Selby] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5740/acaster-selby/] [accessed 21 September 2018], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Neither church nor font are mentioned in Pevsner (1986), but they are reported in Harman & Pevsner (2017): Font. Good C15 bowl on C19 stem. There may have been a second font here, now unaccounted for but mentioned in Moule (1837) as having been "at a farm, near the Gate-house, is a font, brought from the priory, which appears to be of the time of Henry VI" [i.e., 1422-1461]. A description of that second font here appears in Bulmer's 'History, Topography, and Directory of North Yorkshire' (1890): "The font is an ancient piece of Norman work, and is said to have once belonged to Kirkham Priory". [NB: Kirkham Priory, the ruins of which are located near Castle Howard, is usually dated to the 13th-14th centuries, so the claim that the font may have belonged there may be misplaced]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5743740922] mentions a "C19 octagonal font" in this mid-19th century church. [NB: perhaps the 15th-century font, and not a Norman one, is the one from Kirkham Priory]