Sneaton / Sneton

There is a multiple-place entry for Sneaton in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ8907/sneaton/] [accessed 20 January 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Bulmer's Directory of 1890 (p. 1122) reports: "The font bears the date 1100", presumably in an inscription, but no other information is given about it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The church of ST. HILDA was completely rebuilt in 1823 by James Wilson of Sneaton Castle. The present structure is a poor example of the style which passed for Gothic in the early 19th century [...] The font, a survival from the old building, is a massive square bowl of early 12th-century date, with attached shafts at the angles. The faces are ornamented with cheverons and volutes rudely incised in the stone. There is some reason to suppose that the latter form of ornament, of which there are several instances in the neighbourhood of Whitby, is a representation of St. Hilda's serpents." The ScarboroughToday web site [www2.scarboroughtoday.co.uk/tourism/guide.heml] informs that inside the 1823 church [i.e., rebuilt in 1823]. "is a well-preserved font which was hewn from a great block of stone by the Normans and has carvings of zigzags, star patterns, spirals and crosses in circles." Pevsner (1985) note however: "Font. Square, with Norman angle columns, but all the rest so re-carved that not an original stroke remains." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ8940007870] notes: "Church. 1823-25, altered probably c.1910. [...] Square font, restored 1845, of which only the angle shafts with scalloped capitals are unrestored."