Arksey No. 2 / Archeseia

There is an entry for Arksey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5706/arksey/] [accessed 24 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Morris (1932) mentions simply an "octagonal font" here. The cover, not the font itself, is noted in Pevsner (1986): "Font Cover. Dated 1662. The character is still Jacobean, but the design is unusual by the largeness of its members, and the fact that the eight conventional volutes are flat boards set vertically and that their scrolly appearance is entirely due to the outlines of the boards." The 2017 edition by Harman & Pevsner does not mention a font either. A B&W photograph of the font here in 1948 appears in Alison's A Collection of Old Photos: All Saints Church [http://arkvillhistory.blogspot.com/p/old-photos.html] [accessed 24 September 2018]. [A mention of an earlier font dating back to the 12th century appears in (www.3.sympatico.ca/walterarksey/Arksey_village.html with a reference to Arthur Mee's 'The King's England: West Riding' as source -- cf. Index entry for Arksey No. 1]