Arksey No. 1

Noted in Glynne's visit on 28 January 1856 (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a plain round bowl and a cover of Jacobean woodwork." Baptismal font dating back to the 12th century [source: Arthur Mee's 'The King's England: West Riding' as cited in www.3.sympatico.ca/walterarksey/Arksey_village.html This early font is not mentioned in Pevsner (1986). Alison's Arksey Village, A History [http://arkvillhistory.blogspot.com/] [accessed 24 September 2018] mentions and illustrates an early font supposedly from Moat Hills, the manor house of Norman lords "responsible for the building of Arksey church which began in 1150." According to this same source the manor house "seems to have had a chapel, as a font bowl was found there in 1884. Reverend Henry H Naylor of Arksey Church gifted the font bowl to the newly built All Saints church at Intake in the 1950's. They had it renovated and installed in the church, where it is still in use to this day." The accompanying illustration of an old font is captioned: "The Moat Hills font while in storage at Arksey church". It is possible that this was the font reported in the sources above. [NB: is it at Intake? Intake is a suburb of Doncaster -- there does not seem to be a church in the village of Intake, but there is a listed chapel by the cemetery] [NB: this same web site mentions another (?) font dating to 1662 -- cf. Index entry for Arksey No. 2]