Long Marston nr. York

No entry found for this Long Marston in the Domesday survey. Noted in Glynne's 31 January 1865 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a plain octagonal bowl." Described in Bulmer's Directory... (1890): "The font, an ancient one, was rescued from a farmyard, where it had been sacrilegiously prostituted to form a drinking trough for cattle." [NB: the context of this quote is the description of other Norman remains in this church]. Morris (1932) notes: "Plain octagonal font -- probably Perp[endicular]." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE5052150776] notes: "Church. c1400 on a C12 site or reusing C12 materials, tower added C15. North transept added at restoration late C19. [...] A weathered stone block with chamfered corners and a hollow in the top is thought to have been a font but may be a cross base." [NB: another source [https://dioceseofyork.org.uk/news-events/events/church-explorers-all-saints-long-marston/] [accessed 23 September 2020] attributes the e same block an even earlier age: "one of the church’s two fonts is believed to be a piece of Roman stonework"]. The baptismal font, as it stands now [23 June 2005] consists of a plain cylindrical basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base; the lower end of the basin has been re-cut and given a shallow underbowl chamfer with an octagonal lower end to match the shape of the added base; the octagonal pedestal base is obviously of a later period, and the panels of the sides are decorated with trefoil arches or niches. The wooden font cover is modern, a flat circular base with four thick ribs around a Latin cross.