Holton le Clay / Holton-le-Clay / Holtone / Holtun

There are four entries for Holton [-le-Clay] [variant spellings] in te Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA2802/holton-le-clay/] [accessed 25 November 2018] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Paley (1844) reports a font "of undoubtedly Norman date consist[ing] simply of a low cylindrical stone [...] enriched with an upper border, as at Holton-le-Clay, Lincolnshire". Described in Taylor (1965-1978): "A fine font stands in the nave, near the south door, on a simple plinth formed of two tall, circular stone slabs. The font is a simple straight-sided tub now sadly worn and chipped, but with interesting incised ornament round the upper third of its carved surface. At the top is a broad cable moulding, then follows a band of chevrons laid on their sides, and below these is an interlaced arcade of round arches, now rather indistinct." Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Norman. Drum-shaped, the incised rope-moulding probably original, the incised intersecting arches no doubt re-cut or altogether apocryphal." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA2865102780] notes: "Parish church. C11, C13, C14, C16, 1850 rebuilding. [...] C12 tub font with cable moulding round the rim and a panel of chevrons running into low relief blank intersecting arcading."