Wath-upon-Dearne / Wade / Wate / Wath-on-Dearne

There are two entries for Wath [upon Dearne] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4300/wath-upon-dearne/] [accessed 12 October 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Glynne's 5 December 1862 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) notes: "The font is modern." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4325400884] notes: "Church. C12 north arcades within earlier walling, lower part of tower also C12; nave and chancel rebuilt and added to in C13 and C14; tower heightened C14 or C15; nave re-roofed 1540; spire replaced 1714 restored and enlarged 1868 and 1920; C20 addition to north-east corner. [...] Baluster-shaped font of 1726 with acanthus carving and Greek palindrome; turned-wood cover with iron handle and dove finial." Harman & Pevsner (2017) report a small font of 1726 in this church. There is also an octagonal baptismal font in the Decorated style of the 14th century, but, as indicated by Glynne [cf. supra] more likely a Victorian version; the font is of the design that has no visible break between basin and base [it is not, however, monolithic]; the upper rim is moulded; the sides are decorated with a blind arcade of trefoil arches, two per side, inside Ogee windows, one per side, that end in crocketed pinnacles; a buttress marks each of the angles of the sides, and these buttresses continue down the sides through the moulded lower base. The basin well is lead-lined, the lining is modern. The whole is raised on an octagonal plinth. There are two font covers, both wooden: a modern one sits directly on the basin; an earlier one, consisting of an octagonal lower volume with vertical sides decorated with tracery and crenellations; these sides prolong up as ribs into a pyramidal shape, but the part just above the 'crown' is decorated with tracery, and join in a flowery finial. This cover, which appears to be of the late Gothic period, is suspended from the ceiling above the font. [NB: the church goes back to Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier font here].