Thirsk No. 2 / Thresk / Throsk / Thrusken / Thurske / Thyrsk / Tresc / Tresch / Tresche / Treske

There are two entries for Thirsk [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE4282/thirsk/] [accessed 6 December 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Glynne's 5 February 1834 visit to this church (in Butler, 2997) reports: "The font is a plain octagon basin, with a lofty wood cover of tabernacle work." Bulmer's History, Topography, and Directory... (1890: 821) reads: "A new font has, with questionable taste, replaced the old octagonal one. The bowl of the latter was large enough to admit of immersion, and was covered by a canopy of beautiful perpendicular tabernacle work, standing 21 feet high, which was, with barbarous taste, shortened in 1858, to allow of a better view of the barrel organ." [NB: Bulmer's makes no mention as to the whereabouts of the old 'immersion' font]. [NB: the Parish web site [http://www.stmaryschurchthirsk.org.uk/history.asp] [accessed 25 November 2008] informs that the suspension cable of the 21-foot cover snapped in 2007, so the latter is no longer in use]. [cf. Index entry for Thirsk No. 1 for the Perpendicular font in this church]. [NB: a font originally from the Hood Grange Cistercian priory is reported in the gardens at Thirsk Hall, the manor house of Frederic Bell, Esq.]